In its effort to play catch up after thousands of factory inspections were delayed during the coronavirus pandemic, the FDA is still lagging woefully behind and is unable to approach its pre-COVID ...

On May 6, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it intends to expand its use of unannounced inspections at foreign manufacturing facilities. 1 This announcement applies to ...

The Food and Drug Administration is inspecting far fewer pharmaceutical companies conducting clinical research as it adjusts to the post-pandemic world and a smaller workforce, which an auditor warned ...

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 is stepping up its unannounced inspections of foreign manufacturing facilities. In a statement about the increase in inspections, the Food and Drug Administration did not report how many ...

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has fallen short of its facility inspection targets, according to the Food Safety: FDA Should Strengthen Inspection Efforts to Protect the US Food ...

Amid concerns about FDA’s capacity to meet safety mandates following the departure of 3,500 employee since January, the agency signals a new direction for inspections and ability to do more with less ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

In the past, FDA handled all inspections of manufacturing facilities. However, as U.S. manufacturers began to expand nationally and globally, the rising rate made it difficult for the limited number ...