WASHINGTON: For FDA, a major backlog overseas - (New York Times)
January 29, 2008 – 5:22 pmWASHINGTON — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is so understaffed that, at its current pace, the agency would need at least 27 years to inspect every foreign medical device plant that exports to the United States, 13 years to check every foreign drug plant and 1,900 years to examine every foreign food plant, according to government investigators.
Computer systems at the drug agency are so inadequate that it can only guess the number of the plants, and it cannot produce a list of those that have not been inspected. The situation is particularly dire in China, which has more drug and device plants than any other foreign nation but where F.D.A. inspections are few.
These findings come from a series of reports by the Government Accountability Office obtained by The New York Times scheduled to be released Tuesday at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
The reports […]
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