50 People at FDA Oversee the Entire Cosmetics Industry? Believe it
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April 19, 2012
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Tags: CFSAN, china, congress, cosmetics, FDA, FSMA, industry, inspections, Michael Landa, staffing
The FDA has “a total of about 50 full time equivalents to regulate a very large and growing industry,” said Michael Landa, Director of the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition at the FDA in a statement made during a Senate hearing on the safety of cosmetics a few weeks ago. Landa went on to state that although the cosmetics industry is moving product in the billions of dollars, FDA has little more than a dozen employees that actually work in the trenches of … READ MORE
