Your food is safe. The inspector called out sick.
FDA foreign food inspections have fallen nearly 35% since 2019, even as a cyclospora outbreak tied to contaminated lettuce from a Mexican farm crosses the border unchecked.
Source article: FDA inspections of foreign food sites down nearly 35% since 2019, records show.
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- Published
- Pen name
- Editorial Board
- Topic tags
- health, public health
- Primary entities
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration, cyclospora, Mexico, Donald Trump
- Themes
- food safety, international food inspections, public health, federal regulatory staffing
- Floor values engaged
- human_life_and_dignity, Accountability of power, Equality & fairness