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by Marion Nestle
Dec
18
2025
Today’s dysfunctional FDA: Could staff losses have something to do with it?
If you are wondering what’s going on at the FDA, and why everyone seems to be worried about its current leadership, take a look at this instructive post on X: “Nearly 90% of senior leaders who were at the FDA a year ago are no longer there.”
Comment: The FDA has lost its institutional memory. From the standpoint of RFK Jr, that is the point. He considered long-time FDA staff to be sold out to industry and corrupt. He has yet to prove that their replacements are up to the job.
