In its effort to play catch up after thousands of factory inspections were delayed during the coronavirus pandemic, the FDA is still lagging woefully behind and is unable to approach its pre-COVID ...
The FDA is considering reducing its routine food safety inspections and shifting more responsibility to state agencies. However, critics are concerned that this action could undermine oversight and ...
While the FDA’s inspection figures for drug manufacturing facilities have yet to fully recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, sweeping staff cuts have raised questions about how the agency plans to ...
FDA is under fire for missing its mandated food safety inspection goals every year since 2018 and for reducing funds for state and local food safety programs The Government Accountability Office ...
An FDA investigator prepares a test sample for IMS analysis from a shipment of dietary supplements that arrived at the Port of Buffalo in Buffalo, N.Y. (FDA photo) The outbreak of COVID-19 has called ...
After years of discussion, the Food and Drug Administration may shift responsibility for routine food safety inspection to the states. While industry and food safety experts say it's a logical move, ...
When Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced in March that he would eliminate thousands of jobs from federal health agencies, he promised that he would spare the inspectors ...
The Food and Drug Administration is developing a plan to shift more food safety inspection responsibility to state agencies over the course of five years, according to two sources familiar with ...