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,

Thousands of workers employed across the Department of Health and Human Services received notices that they would be terminated following four weeks of leave, including at least 89 members of FDA’s Human Foods Program staff,

It has been increasingly clear … the Trump administration’s disdain for the very people necessary to implement your agenda,’ wrote the deputy commissioner and head of the