News tagged with 'Food Inspections'

The FDA is poised to get new regulatory authority and this auditor report is providing the fuel. It shows that more than half of food facilities have gone five years or more without an inspection and 5,000 in the U.S. die annually from contaminated food.

While the peanut salmonella cases took months before federal regulators announced recalls, the pistachio salmonella outbreak was identified quickly thanks to inspectors working for Kraft, while new FDA leadership called for a recall immediately. 

The state of Georgia, inspecting the Blakely peanut processing plant, found numerous violations. The states conduct inspections for the Food and Drug Administration, as it is overwhelmed by pharmaceutical and medical device issues.  A new direction could change the focus of the agency once a new head is named.