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

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Benjamin L. England, former FDA Regulatory Counsel and CEO of FDAImports.com, commented on the recent E. coli outbreak in Germany.  The E. coli outbreak attributed to Spanish cucumbers bears the comment that any grower or packer of fresh fruits and vegetables shipping to the U.S.A. with the misfortune of experiencing a similar contamination should expect to receive at least as harsh a response from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as Spanish cucumber suppliers are … READ MORE

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