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FDA Inspections Down Amid Food Recalls
The federal agency that's been front and center in warning the public about tainted spinach and contaminated peanut butter is conducting just half the food safety inspections it did three years ago.
That's not all that's dropping at the FDA in terms of food safety. The analysis also shows:
_There are 12 percent fewer FDA employees in field offices who concentrate on food issues.
_Safety tests for U.S.-produced food have dropped nearly 75 percent, from 9,748 in 2003 to 2,455 last year, according to the agency's own statistics.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, the FDA, at the urging of Congress, increased the number of food inspectors and inspections amid fears that the nation's food system was vulnerable to terrorists. Inspectors and inspections spiked in 2003, but now both have fallen enough to erase the gains.
Full wire service article, SF Chronicle, February 27, 2007
The federal agency that's been front and center in warning the public about tainted spinach and contaminated peanut butter is conducting just half the food safety inspections it did three years ago.
That's not all that's dropping at the FDA in terms of food safety. The analysis also shows:
_There are 12 percent fewer FDA employees in field offices who concentrate on food issues.
_Safety tests for U.S.-produced food have dropped nearly 75 percent, from 9,748 in 2003 to 2,455 last year, according to the agency's own statistics.
After the Sept. 11 attacks, the FDA, at the urging of Congress, increased the number of food inspectors and inspections amid fears that the nation's food system was vulnerable to terrorists. Inspectors and inspections spiked in 2003, but now both have fallen enough to erase the gains.
Full wire service article, SF Chronicle, February 27, 2007
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