Publisher’s Platform: The President Has Nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to Run FDA. She Would Inherit the Largest Cyclospora Outbreak Ever Recorded, and Here Is the To-Do List I Would Put on Her Desk.

Publisher’s Platform: The President Has Nominated Dr. Heidi Overton to Run FDA. She Would Inherit the Largest Cyclospora Outbreak Ever Recorded, and Here Is the To-Do List I Would Put on Her Desk.

President Trump announced on Wednesday that he will nominate Dr. Heidi Overton, deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, as the next Commissioner of Food and Drugs. If the Senate confirms her, she inherits an agency that as of Monday was counting 15,716 laboratory-confirmed Cyclospora infections, 828 hospitalizations and two deaths, with 11,841 more reports still being worked through, plus open investigations into jalapeños an…