Marty Makary Out as FDA Commissioner

Marty Makary has resigned from his post as FDA commissioner. CIDRAP has the news.

The resignation comes after a “week of speculation that he would soon be fired by President Donald Trump.” Kyle Diamantas, the agency’s deputy commissioner for food, will serve as acting commissioner.

According to anonymous sources cited by The New York Times, “Makary resigned over the administration’s decision to authorize fruit-flavored e-cigarettes, an action he opposed, noting that grape-flavored vapes could make the product more attractive to children.”

He both “angered Trump and his supporters” and “promoted the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda” during his tenure, but he “angered some in the MAHA movement when the FDA approved updated mRNA COVID vaccines.”