The Food and Drug Administration will officially consolidate administrative staff across the agency’s nine centers and stop specializing its field inspectors starting in October. The Trump administration approved the agency’s reorganization proposal, according to an internal agency announcement reviewed by NOTUS. In the announcement, Melanie Keller, the FDA’s deputy commissioner for operations and chief operating officer, said the reorganization proposal known as “Simple Reform” will go into effect on Oct. 1. Some former agency staff criticized the changes as not understanding how specialized different aspects of the agency are. Like other agencies across the Health Department , many of the FDA’s administrative staff were let go in the reductions-in-force led by DOGE in 2025.