Food and Drug Administration officials have told some scientists and inspections staff that their layoffs will be reversed, after the job cuts led to disruptions in drug and food safety work.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Justice Department unit that handles criminal and civil enforcement of U.S. food and drug safety laws is being disbanded as part of an ongoing cost-cutting campaign by ...

The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the ...

E. coli outbreak sickened more than 80 people, but details didn’t surface Food safety inspections are being scaled back and the public was not notified after an investigation into E. coli ...

The good news is that the Trump administration’s controversial approach to food safety only matters to Americans who eat food. For everyone else, however, there’s cause for some concern.

As the Trump administration slashes the federal workforce, experts say cuts to the USDA, FDA and CDC have left the food supply vulnerable to outbreaks of foodborne illness.

Federal health officials have reversed the decision to fire a few dozen scientists at the Food and Drug Administration’s food-safety labs, and say they are conducting a review to determine if ...

There are currently more than a dozen agencies with responsibilities for food safety, with the lion’s share of the responsibility going to the Food and Drug Administration.

Trump administration cuts reach FDA employees in food safety, medical devices and tobacco products Probationary employees across the FDA received notices Saturday evening that their jobs were ...

A Justice Department unit that handles criminal and civil enforcement of U.S. food and drug safety laws is being disbanded as part of an ongoing cost-cutting campaign by President Donald Trump's ...

New safeguards related to food safety were poised to take effect in January 2026, but as The New York Times reported, that’s apparently no longer going to happen. The Food and Drug ...

The Trump administration's effort to slash the size of the federal workforce reached the Food and Drug Administration this weekend.