FDA’s Top Drug Regulator Has Resigned, Health Department Says

Dr. George Tidmarsh was head of the Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.

Dr. George Tidmarsh in an undated file photograph. FDA via The Epoch Times

A top Food and Drug Administration official has resigned, according to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Dr. George Tidmarsh, director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research since July, stepped down on Nov. 2, a spokesperson for the department headed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said.