The move comes after hospitalizations and deaths from foodborne illnesses more than doubled last year in the US.

The US Department of Agriculture has disbanded two food safety advisory committees in alignment with President Trump's ...

The White House withdrew President Donald Trump's nomination of former Republican congressman and vaccine critic Dave Weldon ...

About 800 foodborne illness outbreaks occur in the United States every year, sickening more than 15,000 people, with one of the most frequent causes of ...

The White House withdrew its nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon to serve ... US Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health – was abruptly cancelled. In the past, the CDC ...

At a time when public health efforts should be strengthened, the Trump administration’s federal workforce cuts are ...

Many US foodborne illness outbreaks are caused by contamination of food from an animal or environmental source before final ...

Trump nominated Weldon, a little-known former politician, to serve as head of the CDC ... Food and Drug Administration for having conflicts of interest and undermining public confidence in the ...

Dave Weldon, a former Republican congressman from Florida, has a long history of criticizing the value and safety of vaccines ... especially now that the CDC is reportedly planning to launch ...

Dr. Weldon and Mr. Kennedy have known each other for 25 years, and both share a deep skepticism of the federal regulatory approach to vaccine safety ... by the prospect of serving his country ...