The chief said the loss of critical employees overseeing the nation’s food supply made his work impossible. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nation’s new health secretary, has pledged to gut the division.

Jim Jones, the head of the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) food division, resigned Monday, citing the mass firings of agency staff.  According to a copy of his resignation letter viewed by

James Jones resigned as FDA deputy commissioner and said the Trump administration's "indiscriminate" job cuts show "disdain for the very people necessary to implement your agenda."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental and anti-vaccine activist, has taken charge of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services with oversight of medicines, vaccines and food safety. Here are some of the policy positions he has asserted in recent months during Senate confirmation hearings and in editorials,

Kennedy will lead the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees several high-profile agencies including the Food and Drug Administration and

LONDON (Reuters) - Packaged food provides safe, quality nutrition for people and reduces waste, Nestle's CEO said on Thursday, defending his company's products when asked how he would navigate incoming U.S. health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s criticism of packaged food.

WASHINGTON − For Robert F. Kennedy Jr., it was divine intervention ... It shouldn’t be up to “moms, dads, and citizen activists like us to do the FDA's (Federal Food and Drug Administration's) job,” she said. Dr. Rob Davidson, a Michigan emergency ...

RFK Jr. has gained a following for his questioning of vaccines. He has vowed to take on the food and drug industries and focus on chronic health conditions.

Kennedy promised not to alter the childhood vaccine schedule. Now he's vowing to investigate the regimen designed to prevent measles, polio and other diseases.

The U.S. Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday, February 13, 2025, with a 52-48 vote.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of Health and Human Services in the Trump administration.

The Senate on Thursday confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as President Donald Trump’s health secretary, putting the prominent vaccine skeptic in control of $1.7 trillion in federal spending, vaccine recommendations and food safety as well as health insurance programs for roughly half the country.