Power Play: US FDA Likely Losing More Than Just Staff With Restructured Health Department

 
• By Sarah Karlin-Smith

About 3,500 full-time FDA employees are expected to be laid off as part of a restructuring of the Health and Human Services Department and experts questioned whether the cuts could be implemented without harming FDA’s core mission.

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Thousands of FDA staff are being laid off as part of an HHS reorganization. (Shutterstock)

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