Jim Jones, the Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), resigned from his post Monday night amidst a flurry of FDA firings, Food Fix first reported. His decision followed the Trump administration’s dismissal of thousands of Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and FDA workers over the weekend,

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Eighty-nine staffers in the agency’s food division were laid off over the weekend, according to Jones, who served as FDA’s deputy commissioner for human foods.