States to Grade their Own Inspectors
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After years of scant federal oversight, Georgia food inspectors soon will come under scrutiny from new regulators: themselves.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants states to assess their own inspection programs, even after Georgia’s failed to prevent a salmonella outbreak traced to a Blakely peanut plant, exposing broad gaps in the nation’s food safety system.
Shifting responsibility unburdens the FDA from a task that, in Georgia at least, it has left undone.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wants states to assess their own inspection programs, even after Georgia’s failed to prevent a salmonella outbreak traced to a Blakely peanut plant, exposing broad gaps in the nation’s food safety system.
Shifting responsibility unburdens the FDA from a task that, in Georgia at least, it has left undone.
Click here to read the rest of the story.