{"id":22411,"date":"2025-02-18T19:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T20:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22411"},"modified":"2025-02-18T20:30:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T20:30:05","slug":"fdas-food-safety-chief-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=22411","title":{"rendered":"FDA\u2019s Food Safety Chief Resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jim Jones, the director of the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s food division, resigned on Monday, citing what he called \u201cindiscriminate\u201d layoffs that would make it \u201cfruitless for him to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his resignation letter, Mr. Jones estimated that 89 people of the 2,000 in his division were fired over the weekend, many of them freshly hired to do more in-depth work on chemical safety to protect the nation\u2019s food supply.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was looking forward to working to pursue the department\u2019s agenda of improving the health of Americans by reducing diet-related chronic disease and risks from chemicals in food,\u201d Mr. Jones wrote in the letter submitted to Sara Brenner, the acting commissioner of the F.D.A.<\/p>\n

But the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cdisdain for the very people\u201d who would do that work gave him no choice but to depart, he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr. Jones also singled out Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly appointed secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, for criticizing the F.D.A. as being too beholden to the industries it oversees and for vowing to to dismiss the agency\u2019s nutrition staff.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe secretary\u2019s comments impugning the integrity of the food staff, asserting they are corrupt based on falsities, is a disservice to everyone,\u201d Mr. Jones wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n

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Jim Jones, the director of the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s food division, resigned on Monday, citing what he called \u201cindiscriminate\u201d layoffs that would make it \u201cfruitless for him to continue.\u201dIn his resignation letter, Mr. Jones estimated that 89 people of the 2,000 in his division were fired over the weekend, many of them freshly hired to do more in-depth work on chemical safety to protect the nation\u2019s food supply.\u201cI was looking forward to working to pursue the department\u2019s agenda of improving the health of Americans by reducing diet-related chronic disease and risks from chemicals in food,\u201d Mr. Jones wrote in the letter submitted to Sara Brenner, the acting commissioner of the F.D.A.But the Trump administration\u2019s \u201cdisdain for the very people\u201d who would do that work gave him no choice but to depart, he said.Mr. Jones also singled out Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the newly appointed secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, for criticizing the F.D.A. as being too beholden to the industries it oversees and for vowing to to dismiss the agency\u2019s nutrition staff.\u201cThe secretary\u2019s comments impugning the integrity of the food staff, asserting they are corrupt based on falsities, is a disservice to everyone,\u201d Mr. Jones wrote in the letter.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22413,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22411"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22414,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22411\/revisions\/22414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}