A slim­mer FDA: White House pro­pos­es 30% cut to head­count un­der re­or­ga­ni­za­tion

Un­der a sweep­ing new plan to re­or­ga­nize gov­ern­ment agen­cies it deems in­ef­fi­cient, the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion said Thurs­day it wants to re­move food safe­ty from the FDA’s purview — along with $1.3 bil­lion in re­sources and 5,000 of the agency’s staff.

The pro­pos­al would slim down the FDA’s re­spon­si­bil­i­ties to on­ly in­clude drugs, de­vices, bi­o­log­ics, to­bac­co, di­etary sup­ple­ments, and cos­met­ics. And the agency over­haul would come with a new moniker: the Fed­er­al Drug Ad­min­is­tra­tion.

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