Chuck Jolley of Food Safety News recently wrote to me and several others asking: With so many high-profile recalls in 2024, have the federal, state, and local institutions responsible for oversight suddenly failed us? Or is something else happening?

INAUGURAL EDITION—January 10, 2025

FDA Matters: The Grossman FDA Report provides short-form analysis and commentary on FDA policy and regulatory issues.

The election spurred fears that a large number of federal scientists and public health staff at FDA might resign from their government posts. The potential for that was elevated by President-elect Trump’s nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to be Secretary of HHS. His anti-vaccine stance is widely seen as a threat to science-based decisionmaking at the agency.