- FDA to blame. A former FDA official said that the agency's siloed organizational structure and delayed response to sanitation concerns contributed to the baby formula shortage last year. The agency is undergoing massive turnover, with the director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, Susan Mayne, announcing earlier this week that she will retire, as it struggles to define its role in food supply chain issues. Washington Post

- Quiz for founders. The Tory Burch Foundation is releasing a platform aimed at guiding female founders through deciding what type of funding is best for them. Foundation president Laurie Fabiano said that it aims to educate and support women entrepreneurs as they navigate funding for their companies. TechCrunch

- Trade framework. U.S. trade representative Katherine Tai has led a new trade agreement with Japan focused on minerals critical for electric vehicle manufacturing. The deal provides a framework for other countries and the EU, which the U.S. does not have free-trade agreements with, to bring them into the investment in clean energy ushered in by the Inflation Reduction Act. New York Times

MOVERS AND SHAKERS: Tanya Giles is resigning from her role as chief programming officer for streaming at Paramount Global. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has appointed Lara Khouri as COO. Group gaming platform Immersive Gamebox named Katie Davidson as commercial director. Erica Gessert will join freelancer marketplace Upwork as CFO. Small business marketing company Vista has promoted Emily Whittaker to executive vice president of commerce and Christina Wick to senior vice president of product experience. 

- Worthy goal? Chief, the women's networking startup, has seen infighting among members on social media since International Women's Day. Some members say they have found great community and think the company is serving its purpose. Others have noticed a lack of public support for abortion rights and racial equality and wondered if its mission of advancing corporate women is worthy enough for the $7,900 membership fee. Chief's founders said that the company is not a social activism organization in response. New York Times

- King in prime time. CNN is close to closing a deal that would put Gayle King in a weekly prime-time spot as the network experiments with strategies that will bring ratings and viewership numbers up. Cable news channels are suffering from declining viewership across the board, but CNN has seen the steepest decline, with viewers down 35% from a year ago. Wall Street Journal

- Acquiring success. Makiko Ono is the new CEO of Suntory Beverage and Food and the first female CEO of a public Japanese company worth more than ¥1 trillion ($7.55 billion). She plans to lean into acquisitions, part of what brought her success in the lower ranks of the company, with $5.4 billion earmarked over the next few years for acquisitions that reflect consumers' growing taste for health-focused beverages after the pandemic. Japan Times

- Early signs. Carla Zaldua Aguirre and her team at startup Accexible have found a way to detect early signs of Alzheimer's. The program, which is accessible via computer, app, or phone, detects differences in speech patterns with 90% accuracy in just a few minutes. Currently, the app is being piloted for 10,000 patients and 40 practitioners in Spain, the U.K., and Colombia. Wired