The U.S. Food and Drug Administration's chief counsel, Hilary Perkins, has resigned, the federal agency said in a post on social media platform X on Thursday, just two days after her appointment was announced.

Just two days after starting at the FDA, the agency’s Chief Counsel Hilary Perkins is signing off, effective immediately. | The FDA chief counsel pick quickly attracted controversy due to her prior defense of medical abortion under the Biden administration's Department of Justice.

The US Food and Drug Administration’s top lawyer resigned on Thursday, two days after her appointment was announced, the agency posted on the social media site X.