Washington, Feb 18, 2025 (AFP) - US food chief resigns in protest at Trump mass firings: reports

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2025-02-19

A senior US Food and Drug Administration official who recently oversaw the agency's banning of a coloring linked to cancer has resigned to protest "indiscriminate" firings by President Donald Trump's government, reports said Tuesday. Jim Jones, who joined the FDA in 2023, wrote in a letter seen by Bloomberg News that the layoffs of 89 staffers in the food division which he heads will severely hinder efforts to implement Health Secretary Robert F.......

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