FDA to Outsource More Foreign Inspections

FDA plans to outsource more inspections of foreign plants, as it aims to expand oversight in the rapidly growing world of overseas manufacturing.

FDA has been inspecting foreign plants every nine years, on average, compared with every 30 months in the U.S., Bloomberg reports, and the agency needs to improve those stats. In fact, FDA is under orders to do just that: Congress chastised the agency for its major lag in foreign inspections and upped funding for their ex