Nearly 1 in 5 positions across the Food and Drug Administration's human food inspection divisions are now vacant, multiple ...

A 2024 report from the Government Accountability Office found that about a third of food safety inspections are already handled by the states. Moving more regulation away from the federal ...

the Food and Drug Administration and the Food Safety and Inspection Service get the majority of government funding and staffing. According to the Congressional Research Service, the FDA is ...

Kennedy Jr., the reach of the Food and Drug Administration ... That year, the federal government formally united milk inspection and created a unified standard for inspecting dairy products.

According to a January report by the Government Accountability Office, the FDA was facing a swelling list of food safety inspections that were on track to miss deadlines mandated by Congress ...

The FDA, CBS reported, currently outsources some routine food inspections through contracts with 43 states and Puerto Rico. A January report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office ...

To this point, almost everything Americans eat has been vetted by one of two government agencies ... The USDA’s internal Food Safety and Inspection Service regulates almost all of the meat ...

According to a recent Government Accountability Office report ... The agency also hasn't met its goals for foreign or domestic food inspections since 2018, according to another GAO report.