The FDA commissioner is set up to affirm at a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Accountability next week.
Commissioner Robert Califf is the only witness arranged for the hearing, which is set for 1 p.m. EDT on April 11. The hearing will be open to the general public and will be live streamed online at https://oversight.house.gov/
The program consists of conversation of the baby formula crisis that followed a recall by Abbott Laboratories in 2022 that was connected to a fatal break out of cronobacter infections. General food security issues are likewise noted as part of the hearing’s focus.
“The Oversight Committee has actually highlighted numerous crises happening on the FDA’s watch which have actually adversely affected the lives and health of American individuals and households,” stated committee chairman James Comer, R-KY.
“From a messed up action to an across the country baby formula crisis, failure to control safe tobacco items, failure to get ready for and address vital drug lacks, and more, we have actually recognized how dysfunction at the FDA might be aggravating much of these avoidable crises.
“We will hold the Commissioner liable for what the FDA is doing to attend to continuous crises, how they are carrying out evaluations to avoid across the country crises in the future, and how they plan to make sure the FDA is very first and primary safeguarding American customers. Subcommittee Chairwoman McClain has actually been at the leading edge of the Oversight Committee’s efforts to bring openness to the FDA and we eagerly anticipate continuing that work at this hearing.”
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