GAO Finds FDA's Foreign Food Facility Inspections Fall Far Short of FSMA Requirement
SEAFOODNEWS.COM [Food Product Design] By Josh Long- March 6, 2015 -
Americans often chow down on food that comes from outside the United States. Yet the federal agency that is chiefly responsible for the safety of the nation’s grub is conducting far fewer inspections of foreign facilities than the law requires, according to a January 2015 government report.
In fiscal year 2014, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) conducted 1,323 inspections of foreign food facilities. That’s just 28 percent of the number required (4,800) by the 4-year-old Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), according to a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). FDA actually conducted more inspections the previous year (1,403)...
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