The Food and Drug Administration is so understaffed that, at its current pace, the agency would need at least 27 years to inspect every foreign medical device plant that exports to the United States, 13 years to check every foreign drug plant and 1,900 years to examine every foreign food plant, according to government investigators.
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Posts Tagged ‘FDA’
FDA In Need of Immediate Attention
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged FDA, Food and drug recall, health on January 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
USDA: Keep frankenfood off the market
Posted in Agribusiness, tagged Agribusiness, Cloned meat, FDA, USDA on January 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The US Deprtment of Agriculture has asked that US farmers keep their cloned food off the market despite a ruling by the FDA that the food was safe. Citing concerns over public opinion and US trade relations with other countries who are less sure about cloned food products the USDA is calling for a [...]
Frankenfood Update: Already In Your Grocer?
Posted in Agribusiness, tagged Animal Cloning, Cloning, FDA, Meat on January 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
The FDA has approved the sale of cloned milk and meat in the general marketplace. The next battle on this issue will be over whether or not to label these foods, as consumers tend to shy away from cloned food when asked and companies who support organic, mother-nature based products want to know before [...]
Frankenfood- EU and US Look At Allowing Cloned Milk & Meat
Posted in Agribusiness, interesting tidbits, tagged Agribusiness, Cattle, Cloning, EU, FDA, Food, health on January 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Both the EU and the US took steps toward allowing meat and milk from cloned animals into the marketplace this week. The FDA could give it’s final ruling on the issue as early as next week. The EU body which is required to take ethical and social considerations into account, (unlike the FDA, [...]
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