After FDA firings, drug reviewers are asked to volunteer for administrative work

https://endpts.com/after-fda-firings-drug-reviewers-are-asked-to-volunteer-for-administrative-work/

FDA RECALL
Brand: H&C Farms Label
Product: Tomatoes
Issue: Potential Foodborne Illness - Salmonella
Date: 05/02/2025
More: https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/williams-farms-repack-llc-recalls-tomatoes-due-possible-salmonella-contamination #FDA #recall

"Since returning to power, President #Trump has made our already-stretched federal #food safety system more "efficient" by throwing it into chaos and destroying capacity on a scale unmatched in living memory." https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/115396?trw=no

FDA RECALL
Brand: Ankimo
Product: Monkfish Liver
Issue: Potential or Undeclared Allergen - Milk
Date: 05/01/2025
More: https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/food-co-issues-allergy-alert-undeclared-milk-monkfish-liver-ankimo #FDA #recall

Everything Bobby Brain Worm says is delusional crap.

Everything.

There is no need to parse every statement and explain every nuance. It is all unmitigated bullshit.

FDA RECALL
Brand: Health Fixer
Product: Male Enhancement Dietary Supplements
Issue: Undeclared Chloropretadalafil, Propoxyphenylsildenafil, Sildenafil
Date: 04/29/2025
More: https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/health-fixer-issues-voluntary-nationwide-recall-male-ultra-malextra-electro-buzz-ultra-armor-and #FDA #recall

"We have the right to expect our government to do that. We have the right to go out and put together a sandwich and have it not kill us. That's a fundamental right, and the country is stronger when that right is in place. 

"Every person matters. Our government should protect us in an every person way, and we should stand together in an every person way."

https://buttondown.com/theswordandthesandwich/archive/how-to-not-get-poisoned-in-america/

#FDA
#TrumpCuts
#RFK
#RGKeugenics
#capitalism
#food
#regulations
#WeNeedRegulations
#HealthyFoodIsAHumanRight

Under #Trump 2.0, the #FDA may prevent us from getting vaccinated for #COVID. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-covid-booster-shots-marty-makary/

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You know this was always their endgame. The bullshit answers #RFK Jr. and his fellow loons gave Congress were even more transparent lies than all the other confirmation hearing testimony. Everyone who voted to confirm them shares the blame, but Bill #Cassidy has earned a special place in hell.

#Bondi, #Hegseth, #Noem, and all the rest of the cabinet are all assholes, and profoundly dangerous. Justice and Homeland Security are slaying their thousands, and Defense is gearing up to slay its tens of thousands. Health and Human Services is chuckling at them and saying "amateurs."

I'm skeptical that any amount of lobbying #HHS directly, or any of its sub-departments such as #FDA, #NIH, and #CDC, will have much effect. But maybe, just maybe, calling your #Senators and #Representatives will have an effect.

Let's face it, members of #Congress will suffer a lot less from idiocy like #tariffs than the rest of us, and they're (probably) safe from roundup and #deportation. #Viruses don't care about such distinctions. Mighty and humble alike can choke to death on their own liquefying lung tissue.

#Antivaxers are not "skeptics." They're not interested in evidence. They can't be bargained with, they can't be reasoned with, and they absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

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Marty Makary and Tracy Hoeg at the FDA are currently trying to set a policy that would effectively eliminate all covid vaccines. They want to require a full clinical trial every year for companies to update the covid vaccine to match the current strain, which they know is not possible.

Please contact the FDA and demand continuing access to yearly updated covid vaccines and ask for the Novavax 2025 covid vaccine to be approved.

mmakary1@jhmi.edu
ocod@fda.hhs.gov
tracybeth.hoeg@fda.hhs.gov
800-402-8010

"In a commentary published this week, former officials Phil Krause and Luciana Borio called on the FDA to 'stick to its normal processes.'

'Shifting standards and late-stage demands for new data — based on faulty scientific assumptions — erode trust, delay access to important tools, and discourage developers from advancing vaccine innovation,' they wrote."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/fda-covid-booster-shots-marty-makary/

On one hand I appreciate that the #FDA is still operational, but I wonder if this warning letter was sent to #Cosco for political reasons.

https://www.fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/warning-letters/cosco-international-inc-701209-04142025

FDA RECALL
Brand: Trader Joe’s
Product: Sesame Miso Salad with Salmon
Issue: Potential or Undeclared Allergen - Milk
Date: 04/29/2025
More: https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/trader-joes-sesame-miso-salad-salmon-voluntarily-recalled-due-undeclared-milk-allergen #FDA #recall

"Former government health officials fear the Trump administration is moving to slow-walk vaccine approvals, including by imposing new regulatory hurdles on drugmakers, such as changing the requirements for approval or seeking additional clinical trial data."

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/fda-appears-slow-walking-vaccine-approvals-rcna202596

There were some folks who hoped Marty Makary would buttress #FDA's vaccine regulation from pressures exerted by an anti-vax HHS secretary. Those hopes seem to be receding, @lizzylawrence.bsky.social reports. https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/29/fda-vaccine-criticism-seeping-into-official-policy-rfk-jr-marty-makary/

#FYI #US #USA #disease #diseases #AMA #ACIP #AmericanMedicalAssociation #ToddUnger #SandraFryhofer #vaccines #vaccination #vaccinesafety #CDC #FDA #measles #RSV

"Are vaccines safe? How long have vaccines been around? What is ACIP? Is there a booster for RSV? How old is the measles vaccine? What happens at ACIP meetings?

What are the latest vaccine recommendations? Sandra Fryhofer, MD, AMA’s liaison to the ACIP, shares news from the most recent meeting. "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGb87HWp0fs

FDA has blocked approval of the updated COVID-19 vaccine without a new clinical trial. #COVID #FDA #vaccine https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/fda-scrutiny-novavax-covid-19-vaccine-sparks-uncertainty-121256091

FDA RECALL
Brand: Mauna Loa
Product: Dark Chocolate Covered Macadamias
Issue: Undeclared cashew, almond
Date: 04/26/2025
More: https://www.fda.gov/safety/recalls-market-withdrawals-safety-alerts/mauna-loa-macadamia-nut-company-llc-issues-allergy-alert-undeclared-almonds-and-cashews-mauna-loa #FDA #recall

Where is the approval process for updated #Covid shots heading? Signals out of #FDA & #HHS are creating some confusion. https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/27/fda-covid-vaccine-approval-process-novavax-pfizer-moderna/