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The top of the Meals and Drug Administration’s meals division resigned on Monday after stating widespread cuts throughout the company will make it difficult to satisfy the Trump administration’s desired modifications, in keeping with a report.
“I was looking forward to working to pursue the department’s agenda of improving the health of Americans by reducing diet-related chronic disease and risks from chemicals in food,” he wrote in his resignation letter to Performing FDA Commissioner Sara Brenner, in keeping with the outlet.
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Jones stated it might be “fruitless for me to continue in this role” due to the Trump administration’s “disdain for the very people” wanted to make the modifications it needs.
“President Trump is only interested in the best and most qualified people who are also willing to implement his America First Agenda on behalf of the American people,” she instructed the outlet. “It’s not for everyone, and that’s okay.”
Jim Jones allegedly stated it might be “fruitless” for him to proceed working as the pinnacle of the FDA’s meals division due to the Trump administration’s “disdain” for the individuals wanted to make its desired modifications attainable. (Sarah Silbiger/Getty Photos / Getty Photos)
The staffers who misplaced their jobs over the weekend embody staff with “highly technical expertise in nutrition, infant formula, food safety response,” Jones stated in his letter, noting that 10 terminated staffers have been accountable for reviewing probably unsafe components in meals.
Jones led a profitable push to ban purple dye No. 3, which had its authorization revoked by the FDA final month whereas former President Joe Biden was nonetheless in workplace.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will lead the Division of Well being and Human Providers underneath President Donald Trump. (iStock / iStock)
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was sworn in because the Well being and Human Providers secretary on Thursday after working a “Make America Healthy Again” marketing campaign with Trump.
Trump has nominated Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary to steer the FDA, though he has not but been confirmed.
