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FDA Considers Scaling Back Inspections, Raising Questions About Food Safety
coli outbreak. While states already conduct many inspections, some are not under FDA contracts, raising questions about consistency and safety. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...
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FDA moves shaping US food so far in 2025
From AI-powered inspections to bold regulatory shifts on dyes and sugar, the FDA has made waves in 2025. Here are the 17 most ...
Agri-Pulse2mon
Shifting FDA food safety inspection to states has big challenges
After years of discussion, the Food and Drug Administration may shift responsibility for routine food safety inspection ... Questions about details remain One question is about expertise. FDA ...
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The FDA Buried an E. Coli Outbreak. Now It’s Scaling Back Food Safety
A spokesperson for the FDA denied the report. The FDA already contracts out a significant amount of inspection work on low-risk food categories, and it’s not the first time shifting food-safety ...
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Humacyte (HUMA) Faces Questions After FDA Inspection – Hagens Berman
The FDA’s April 5, 2024 report submitted to Prichard appears to potentially contradict her assurances to investors at an earnings call on May 12, 2024 in response to analyst questions.
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US lawmakers questions FDAs drug inspection programme in India and China
Washington: Three top American lawmakers have questioned the foreign drug inspection programme of the Food and Drug Administration in India and China. In a letter to FDA Commissioner Robert Califf ...
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How FDA cuts could make the food and drug supply less safe
"That is America's first line of defense for the safety of their food and their drugs," said a current pharmaceutical inspector ... to questions from NPR, HHS said in a statement: "The FDA ...
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FDA’s inspections still lag pre-pandemic period
TESTING FOR QUALITY The slowdown in inspections has attracted scrutiny from lawmakers and raised questions about whether FDA's decades-old approach is working. House Republicans have peppered the ...
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FDA drug-plant inspections still haven’t recovered from the pandemic, AP reports
As COVID-19 swept across the globe in early 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pulled most of its safety inspectors from the field, creating a massive backlog of uninspected ...
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FDA hiring contractors to replace fired staff who supported safety inspections
The potential disruptions to FDA’s already strained inspection force are so great ... They did not answer questions about whether contractors would be cheaper or more efficient.
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FDA to rehire fired staffers who booked inspection trips, but other workers remain in limbo
More than 20 of the agency’s roughly 60 travel staff will be reinstated, according to two FDA staffers notified ... did not respond to specific questions about which employees are being ...