US FDA’s First Deputy Commissioner For Foods Studied For Post In Agency’s External Review

James Jones had 30-year career at the EPA before participating in the Reagan-Udall Foundation’s review of FDA’s food safety programs, reaching deep into agency’s current structural and operational norms to suggest far-reaching changes.

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The US Food and Drug Administration’s first deputy commissioner for human foods is “intimately knowledgeable of the agency's challenges and opportunities” after working on the external panel which recommended overhauling the agency’s food programs.

The Council for Responsible Nutrition says the FDA’s appointment of former Environmental Protection Agency official James “Jim” Jones on 23...

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