Chairman Comer, Ranking Member Connolly and members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to testify. My name is Richard A. Williams, and I am retired from the Food and Drug Administration after serving for 27 years. I am currently the Chairman of the Board for the Center for Truth in Science and a Senior Affiliated Scholar with the Mercatus Center. I am also the author of Fixing Food: An FDA Insider Unravels the Myths and the Solutions.
In Reputation and Power, Daniel Carpenter said, “Over the late twentieth century, few regulatory agencies of any sort, in any nation, possessed or exercised the power of the Food and Drug Administration. … The regulatory power stems in large measure from a reputation that inspires praise and fear.[i]
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