Posted on 04/03/2025 3:35:19 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Senior Food and Drug Administration leaders are planning for cutbacks to the number of routine food and drug inspections conducted by the agency, multiple officials say, due to steep layoffs this week in support staff.
Around 170 workers were cut from the FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations, according to two federal health officials who were not authorized to speak publicly.
One of the biggest immediate impacts on the agency's inspectors stems from the elimination of the office's travel operations division, one official said. The team's work ranged from booking flights to coordinating with the State Department to secure translators needed for inspections of drugmakers and food producers abroad.
"As of yesterday, all front-line investigators will now be spending significant time processing their own travel and related administrative requirements, rather than spending that time in firms ensuring the American consumer is protected," one FDA official told CBS News.
While current inspections are still taking place, multiple FDA officials said that cuts are likely to worsen delays caused by other challenges introduced by the Trump administration's efforts to cut spending in recent months.
As one example, multiple officials said that field operations have been hampered by a new government-wide $1 limit on spending cards. Any spending above that limit requires a cumbersome approval process.
Inspectors had already been asked to plan their inspections a month in advance due to the delays caused by the spending limit, one official said.
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Oh great, another “say” story.
Experts say
Economists say
Officials say.
I’m starting to think that the folks suggesting that CBS News is deliberately trying to kill the merger are on to something...
And I’ll just toss this in in case it’s germane...
https://www.scribd.com/document/763954974/USDA-FOIA-records-requested-by-Alexander-Tin
...according to two federal health officials who were not authorized to speak publicly.
Fire them immediately.
I’m all against fewer inspections. Keep cutting Elon, half the workforce never showed up for work so cutting all of their non existent inspections means zero fewer inspections, half the apparatchiks.
So FDA on site inspectors needed a whole dept of booking agents?
And, the National Park Service will have to close the Statue of Liberty on Weekends.
Yeah. Yeah. BS.
Audits are often done by outside contractors not the agencies themselves. I know because the company I work for makes medical products.
Malicious compliance.
Fire all the remaining executives.
Aren’t there 51 FDA’s (assuming we only have 50 states)? We can eliminate this one. They speak here in a threatening tone, fire ‘em all.
“according to two federal health officials who were not authorized to speak publicly”
typical lies promulgated by the Democrat propaganda media, attributed to ghostly “sources”, who as described, could be:
1. non-existent
2. FORMER disgruntled “administrators” who were laid off
3. the two guys who runs the floor buffer in the hallways at night ..
MAKE the products here & no need for “TRAVEL ABROAD” to do inspections
Lawsuits, class action, and boycotts will fill the breach for bad suppliers.
Considering the violations that some mfg got away with when FDA did have an over abundance of staff this does not set off the panic button for me. It may mean that finally those that remain start taking their job seriously and do the work.
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