The Food and Drug Administration is drawing up plans that would end most of its routine food safety inspections work, multiple federal health officials tell CBS News, and effectively outsource this ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — When Health Secretary ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is confronted with significant challenges in its inspection processes due to recent layoffs. Among other effects, the latest reduction in force of full-time ...
After a quiet January marked by administrative transition and internal upheaval at FDA, enforcement activity has accelerated sharply in 2025. No warning letters were issued in the first month of the ...
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 ...
HAMPTON, VA. — Food plant inspections by the US Food and Drug Administration might be reduced as the result of deep staffing cuts under the Trump administration and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., secretary of ...