Washington, United States:
On Tuesday, it said that an officer of a senior American Food and Drug Administration, who recently oversees a color ban on the agency’s cancer, has opposed the “indiscriminate” firing by President Donald Trump’s government. has resigned.
Jim Jones, who joined the FDA in 2023, wrote in a letter viewed by Bloomberg News that the retrenchment of 89 employees in the food division, which he is prominent, he is the head of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy JR’s diet to improve the diet of Americans. Will severely obstruct efforts to implement.
He said, “I was eager to work to carry forward the department’s agenda to improve the health of Americans by reducing the risks related to diet and chemicals in food,” he said, but said, but the new administration ” Many people despised “needed to be a reality of these goals meant that it was” fruitless for me to continue in this role. “
The resignation was first reported by Udyog Publication Food Fix.
Jones’ departure is between broad federal job cuts to include thousands of people, as the so -called government efficiency department of Elon Musk led an aggressive downsizing initiative, especially targeting employees within their probationary periods. , Which lasts for at least one year.
Last week, the AFP reported that about half of the epidemic teams in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), known as “disease detectives”, were also rejected. Experts have warned that such cuts can endanger public health, especially concerns such as an extensive bird flu outbreak in humans.
Jones, who previously served in the environmental protection agency, looked at a ban on Red Dye No. 3 last month, a color that caused cancer in animals for a long time, but still widely thousands of American food products Is used in
Health Secretary Kennedy has deployed food industry reform as a foundation stone for its “Make America Healthy Again” initiative, which emphasizing strict labeling laws to combat the country’s obesity, harmful chemicals and absence Relatives are advocating against the additives.
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