Companies that interact with FDA are likely to find that the layoff of 3,500 employees on April 1, 2025, affects their dealings in a variety of ways.

Welcome to another installment of This Week at FDA, your weekly source for updates@big and small@on FDA, drug, and medical device regulation and what we@re reading from around the web. This week, the Trump Administration fired thousands of probationary workers at federal health agencies, including FDA, and the head of FDA@s food program and a top official from its biologics center have resigned.

April 1, 2025 - At the FDA, the entire team that ... publicly criticizing the administration. According to an HHS fact sheet, 3,500 FDA jobs are being eliminated....

June 26, 2025 - On Thursday, March 27, 2025, HHS announced that they would be conducting a reduction in force impacting nearly 3,500 full time FDA employees – nearly 20% of the Agency’s entire workforce.

March 27, 2025 - The Health and Human Services Department on Thursday announced a sweeping plan to cut 10,000 jobs and consolidate operations across its sub-agencies. FDA drug, medical device, or food reviewers and inspectors will not be among those fired, according ...

April 30, 2025 - April 28, 2025 / 8:05 PM EDT / CBS News · Food and Drug Administration officials have told some scientists and inspections staff that their layoffs will be reversed, after the job cuts led to disruptions in drug and food safety work.

April 1, 2025 - By Leah Douglas, Marisa Taylor ... · WASHINGTON, April 1 (Reuters) - The Trump administration began mass layoffs of 10,000 staffers at U.S....

FDA layoffs · Staff handling drug safety for animals cut · By Will Stone, Sydney Lupkin | NPR · Published February 19, 2025 1:30 PM · Share This · Facebook · Twitter · ( Joseph Prezioso/AFP · / Getty Images) One casualty of the mass firings across federal health agencies are regulators who ensure drugs for pets and livestock are safe and effective.

April 4, 2025 - By Fraiser Kansteiner Apr 4, 2025 11:00am · U.S. FDA Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. job cuts · As reports surface detailing the extent of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services, FDA officials are sounding the alarm about their ability to review applications for new drugs moving forward.

April 11, 2025 - April 10, 2025 9:37 pm · 4 min read · WASHINGTON (AP) — Weeks after ordering all Food and Drug Administration employees back into the office, the agency is reversing course, allowing some of its most prized staffers to work remotely amid worries that recent layoffs and resignations could jeopardize basic functions, like approving new medicines. An internal email obtained by The Associated Press states that FDA leadership are “allowing review staff and supervisors to resume telework” at least two days a week.

April 3, 2025 - Thousands of FDA staffers were laid off Tuesday. April 3, 2025 · 5 min · The Food and Drug Administration is charged with overseeing the safety of vaccines, medicines, food products and more.

July 16, 2025 - On Monday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) finalized 10,000 layoffs across federal health agencies, including the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S.

July 7, 2025 - STAT spoke with 15 employees across the agency’s drug, device, biologics, and food centers on how the FDA has functioned since the April 1 layoffs, which coincided with the start of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary’s tenure.

April 10, 2025 - But drug reviews are likely to be affected, anyway, more than a dozen current and recently departed FDA employees told STAT. The people requested anonymity to protect against retaliation from the administration. ... Peter Stein, who was removed last week from his position as director of the Office of New Drugs, likened the HHS layoffs to an out-of-the-know person turning off machines in a factory because they didn’t look important.

May 6, 2025 - Senior U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman on April 25 issued an injunction to block the executive order from being implemented, pending the outcome of a lawsuit by the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU), which represents about 160,000 federal employees including as many as 9,000 FDA staff. The Trump administration has appealed that injunction. A five-hour, virtual meeting between the union and the Department of Health and Human Services to discuss mass layoffs at the FDA was axed the evening before it was set to take place.

March 27, 2025 - This move shortly follows mass layoffs of probationary employees at FDA and CDC, as well as at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and other non-HHS federal agencies, that occurred in February 2025 and resulted in the resignation of FDA ...

April 23, 2025 - In February, President Trump signed ... Human Services (HHS) acted on the directive by announcing it would slash about 3,500 full-time FDA employees to streamline operations and centralize administrative functions....

Thousands of workers at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were abruptly fired on 1 April as part of President Donald Trump@s effort to reduce the size of the federal government.

April 25, 2025 - After 20 percent of the agency’s work force was cut, federal health officials have decided to bring back some experts and review firings to fill gaps in critical roles.

April 4, 2025 - WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) - The Trump administration's mass firings at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have removed employees critical to reviewing new medicines, setting back years of effort to bring promising treatments to patients ...