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White House proposes a narrowing of FDA’s mission — and a new name

Source: Andrew Harnik/AP

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has proposed a fundamental change to the mission of the Food and Drug Administration, one that would transfer most of the responsibility for regulating food safety to the Department of Agriculture and rename the

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