HHS, FDA dispute spills out onto Twitter
In the final months and weeks of the Trump administration, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has advanced several policies to consolidate its authority over the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA).
Today, with just one day left in the Trump administration, the latest dispute between HHS and its subagency spilled into the public.
Following media reports last week that FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn refused to sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) that would cede FDA’s oversight of genetically modified animals to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), HHS pushed ahead with the policy. A copy of the MoU posted to the USDA website shows the document was signed by Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir and Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and, tellingly, lists a liaison for USDA but leaves the corresponding section for FDA’s liaison blank.
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