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Congress is staring at a possible government shutdown next weekend as House GOP leaders try to win passage of a stopgap spending bill that’s combined with a one-year extension of the 2018 farm bill.
A new coalition that includes consumer advocates and major industry groups plans to work with the FDA, as well as policymakers and media, to ensure the agency's new Human Foods Program has the vision and execution required to make needed cultural and organizational changes.
For more than a century the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has been responsible for ensuring the safety of food products consumed by hundreds of millions of Americans each day while also advancing nutrition. After reviewing the findings and recommendations from external and internal reviews, the FDA identified issues surrounding culture, structure, resources and authorities, as well as several areas of need.
FDA did not specify how reorganization of the human foods program would impact dietary supplements, though the commissioner said, "we’ll be working on that."
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said Tuesday that no one at the agency will be reassigned or fired in the wake of last year's infant formula shortage and the FDA's delayed response.