FDA’s Restructured Food Program Will Be Led By One Deputy Commissioner

FDA plans to make several changes to its human foods program that include combining the food safety center with the food policy and regulatory affairs shops, and appointing a single deputy commissioner to oversee the entire program, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf announced Tuesday (Jan. 31), coming just one week after Frank Yiannas, FDA deputy commissioner for food policy and response, said he would resign from his position effective Feb. 24 . Yiannas had cited concerns that FDA’s decentralized food structure...