The firings this week also include all staff responsible for managing records – such as new product applications – at FDA divisions that oversee biotechnology therapies, medical devices, veterinary medicine and tobacco products,

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the agencies responsible for protecting and promoting Americans’ health.

A leading food and health advisory agency has described the mass layoffs at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as “devastating”. It emerged overnight that the Trump-appointed Secretary of Health and Human Services,