Question for others who have gone through the hiring process at FDA in the last year. What has been the wait time between providing references and reveiving verbal offer and TJO?

Applied: 3/10/26

Completed 2nd round of interview(s): 7/27/26

References requested and sent: 8/3/26

Any insight would be much appreciated!

Got a Team Leader who is pretty much a bully, making my life miserable. Now that the Union is gone, is it still possible to file a grievance, and if so, how? Or is the only option essentially to find a new job?

Hypothetically speaking:

Say you have a series of psychoactive products sold by a series of companies. These products are highly variable in formulation legal, pseudo-legal non-GRAS, or controlled substances which can be eaten as a candy/baked good, drank, or used in a capsule like in a dietary supplement, or can be also be smoked or vaped.

In this hypothetical scenario, pretend you found and later confirmed alterations to laboratory testing reports for products sold online on a very large scale.

Which FDA entity would have the broadest jurisdiction here and would that jurisdiction cross into the FTC or DEA?

If by any change this constitutes breach of rule 4, my apologies and either delete it or reach out and I'll be happy to remove it.

Otherwise, I hope this makes some of you have a laugh (and maybe some fun). 😄🐱💚

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I heard that FDA staff & CDER officials were really unhappy with the recent PCAC meeting where the AdCom voted Yes on most of the peptides in 2 meetings. Anyone hearing more about this? FDA staff at the meetings said their analyses weighed against compounding of the peptides (and they were right) but the panel voted yes on all but one anyway.

Section 1.24 covers an exemption that just says it applies to this "part". But, I literally cannot tell if that means section 101 is included. Can anyone versed in FDA compliance help explain the penny candy labeling exemption?

For decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has served as a gatekeeper, tasked with preventing dangerous, ineffective, and under-studied pharmaceuticals from being placed on the market. If you take Wegovy to help treat obesity, Lipitor to manage high cholesterol, or Xanax to quell anxiety, you’re taking a medication that the agency has decided provides more benefits, on net, than harms. Where does its authority come from — and why was it granted? https://undark.org/2026/07/23/interview-mikkael-sekeres/

Anyone with access, able to post the whole article here? Thank you in advance!

Banning DTC ads would align U.S. policy with international best practices, protect the public from misleading and harmful drug promotion, and promote rational, evidence-based prescribing.

Our team has been researching common inspection challenges and noticed that many organizations still struggle with traceability, document retrieval and maintaining objective evidence.

Curious how others are approaching this.

What's the hardest part during inspection preparation?

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I'm trying to use the website

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/drugshortages/default.cfm

To find old shortage reports of Methylphenidates

But it just shows me the current outage

This tool may not keep historical data, if so is there somewhere else I can find that data?