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FDA to replace laid-off employees with contractors, sources say
The contractors would effectively replace most of the work done by more than 50 laid-off federal employees who handled travel ...
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FDA Warns That Counterfeit Ozempic Has Flooded U.S. Drug Markets — Here's What to Know
If you have been advised by a primary care provider to take prescription Ozempic, you should know that counterfeit ...
FDA Warns Of Fake Ozempic Floating Through U.S. Supply Chain
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging patients and healthcare professionals to check the legitimacy of their Ozempic prescriptions after the agency seized hundreds of fake units of the ...
FDA Cuts Threaten New Drugs as Reviewers Saddled With Extra Jobs
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s sweeping layoffs across federal health agencies is disrupting the work of drug, medical device, and food reviewers, forcing employees to pick up additional duties ...
FDA planning for fewer food and drug inspections due to layoffs, officials say
Around 170 staff were cut from the FDA's Office of Inspections and Investigations this week as part of wider cuts at U.S.
FDA announces plan to phase out some animal testing
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it is shifting away from animal testing in the development of monoclonal ...
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FDA plans to phase out animal testing in drugs in what it calls a ‘paradigm shift’
The move comes after lawmakers sought to force the agency to update regulations that would allow alternatives to animal ...
FDA to phase out some animal testing requirements, possibly replace them with AI models
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced Thursday it plans to phase out animal testing requirements for biological ...
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FDA Issues Warning About Counterfeit Ozempic
Novo Nordisk notified the Food and Drug Administration about several hundred units of fake semaglutide 1.0 mg in the US drug ...
FDA says it will phase out animal testing requirement for monoclonal antibodies and drugs
The US Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it will be phasing out a requirement that monoclonal antibodies ...
To promote drug safety, FDA to replace animal testing with AI-based experiments, other methods
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial ...
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How FDA layoffs may impact food safety
Layoffs at the Food and Drug Administration are expected to reduce the FDA's workforce by 20%. Susan Mayne, former director ...