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U.S. Food and Drug Administration is beginning a multi-year
hiring initiative. The agency intends to hire hundreds with
science and medical backgrounds to enhance the agency's
ability to ens ure food and product safety.
In
fiscal year 2008, the F.D.A. is looking to fill more than
600 new positions and to backfill over 700 others to implement
the F.D.A. Amendments Act of 2007, the Food Protection Plan
and the Import Safety Action Plan. That's nearly triple
the number of people hired from 2005-2007.
"It
takes a large pool of talented people for the F.D.A. to
protect and promote the public health," said John Dyer,
the F.D.A.'s deputy commissioner for operations and chief
operating officer. "Each month there is a delay in bringing
critical staff on board impairs the agency's ability to
fulfill this mission."
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