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 ...

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, ...

The FDA has made additional reports on inspections of ByHeart infant formula plants available. The company’s formula has been determined to be the source of at least 37 cases of infant botulism. The ...

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 ...

The FDA is ramping up oversight of foreign manufacturing sites by expanding its use of unannounced inspections, a move aimed at leveling the playing field between domestic and international drugmakers ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- Federal regulators responsible for the safety of the U.S. drug supply are still struggling to get back to where they were in 2019, before the covid-19 pandemic upended factory ...

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 ...

Senior Food and Drug Administration leaders are planning for cutbacks to the number of routine food and drug inspections conducted by the agency, multiple officials say, due to steep layoffs this week ...

A federal pullback could shift oversight responsibilities to the states, with consumer groups expressing concern that the move will slow responses to outbreaks. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning ...