FDA Enforcement Priorities Include Globalization Threats

FDA will overhaul its enforcement approach to reflect the impact of globalization by partnering more with foreign counterparts, streamlining inspections, recalls and emergency responses and using stiff criminal sanctions to deter noncompliance, agency officials say.

FDA will expand enforcement beyond U.S. borders in 2012 to address developing safety threats from globalization, top agency officials say.

“We have to shift to a more global agenda” that addresses the emerging regulatory environment in which national borders are...

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