Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has introduced a bill to bar foreign nationals from adversarial nations from employment with the Food and Drug Administration.
If passed, the American Medicine Safety and Security Act would prohibit individuals with ties to China, Russia, or Iran from working at the nation’s preeminent regulator for food, medications, medical devices, and cosmetics, according to a release from Cotton’s office.
“The oversight of our food and medicine is too important to allow corruption from adversarial foreign nationals,” Cotton said. “My bill will establish safeguards at FDA to protect Americans’ health and intellectual property.”
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