The Food and Drug Administration is developing a plan to shift more food safety inspection responsibility to state agencies over the course of five years, according to two sources familiar with ...

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, ...

Senior Food and Drug Administration leaders are planning for cutbacks to the number of routine food and drug inspections conducted by the agency, multiple officials say, due to steep layoffs this week ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced sweeping job cuts at his department last month, he said that safety inspectors who oversee U.S. foods and drugs wouldn't be ...

On May 6, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced a plan to expand its use of unannounced inspections of foreign manufacturing facilities that produce foods, essential medicines ...

After a quiet January marked by administrative transition and internal upheaval at FDA, enforcement activity has accelerated sharply in 2025. No warning letters were issued in the first month of the ...

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 ...

His departure comes at a time of many concerns within the agency, including staff frustrations with the direction of inspections under new FDA Commissioner Dr Marty Makary. HealthDay News — The ...

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 ...

With every bottle of prescription medication comes an implied promise: The drugs are safe and effective and meet strict standards set by the Food and Drug Administration. But the agency known as one ...