by Steven A. Grossman | Mar 25, 2025 | Short Takes and Updates
—A Follow-Up to “What’s Happening to FDA Employees: An Analogy Can Help”— This past Friday’s column–“What’s Happening to FDA Employees: An Analogy Can Help” (here)—was one of my most widely-read articles[1]. While the analogy helped many readers, the most...
by Steven A. Grossman | Mar 21, 2025 | Short Takes and Updates
I was out-of-town for part of the week and was asked several times: what is happening to Federal workers, especially those at FDA? By way of an answer, I created this analogy: There is a bakery with ten employees. Because fresh baked goods will be...
by Steven A. Grossman | Mar 18, 2025 | Short Takes and Updates
Let us agree at the outset that food policy and regulation is too important to be ignored. After all, every American ingests food multiple times each day. Nothing else is such a ubiquitous part of our lives. So, I am fully committed to the value of a major...
by Steven A. Grossman | Mar 14, 2025 | Short Takes and Updates
If you have not signed up to receive the FDA Matters newsletter in your email box, go to the home page to sign up. 1. Zero-Based Defense (ZBD) of Critical Government Programs In the March 12 FDA Matters blog (here) I observed that incoming leaders during a...
by Steven A. Grossman | Mar 12, 2025 | Short Takes and Updates
If you have not signed up to receive the FDA Matters newsletter in your email box, go to the home page to sign up. On Monday, I had the honor to address the annual meeting of America’s Blood Centers (ABC). It reminded me how much I learn by preparing for speeches and...
by Steven A. Grossman | Mar 7, 2025 | Short Takes and Updates
If you have not signed up to receive the FDA Matters newsletter in your email box, go to the home page to sign up. 1. Taken From This Week’s Headlines Elon Musk learns there is a Budget Control Act protocol, known as recissions, for cutting appropriated funding....
