Kudos to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf for acknowledging his agency needs help. Recognizing a problem is a prerequisite to making amends.
On July 19th, Califf conceded, as only a government official could, “the agency has confronted a series of challenges that have tested our regulatory frameworks and stressed the agency’s operations, prompting me to take a closer look at how we do business.” He also commissioned a report to help figure things out.
The FDA’s bungled response to contamination at the Abbott Nutrition infant formula plant in Michigan drew attention to broader problems within the agency’s food regulation bureaucracy.
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