FDA Steps Up Its Presence in China by Inspecting More Food-Facilities
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According to research done by www.FDAImports.com, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) aggressively stepped-up the number of food-facility inspections in China last year according to the FDA Inspection Classification Database. Between fiscal year 2009 and 2010, FDA had a thirteen-fold increase in food-facility inspections in China. Last year’s dramatic increase foreshadows FDA’s greater international profile through inspecting foreign food-facility, which Congress mandated in the recently passed FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (“FSMA”).
China has played an increasingly important role in supplying food to the United States. Between 1999 and 2008, China went from the eleventh-largest supplier of … READ MORE
