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 ...

In life sciences manufacturing, inspections by the FDA, state regulators or other agencies are part of the job. But too often ...

WASHINGTON -- 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

As COVID-19 swept across the globe in early 2020, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pulled most of its safety inspectors from the field, creating a massive backlog of uninspected pharmaceutical ...

In response to a report from the Government Accountability Office, the FDA says the biggest stumbling block to conducting inspections of food facilities is understaffing. The Food and Drug ...

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 ...

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 ...