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Legislators Clamor For More Surprise FDA Inspections Abroad

 
• By Joanne S. Eglovitch

House lawmakers who get the first cut at setting the FDA’s budget joined GAO expert in raising concerns about shortage of investigators and lack of surprise for foreign inspections.

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House Legislators Press GAO On FDA's Foreign Inspections Program • Source: Shutterstock

House appropriators pressed a General Accountability Office expert at a 9 March hearing to elaborate on concerns raised in a recent GAO report on a shortage of US Food and Drug Administration staff trained to conduct foreign inspections and on a lack of parity between foreign and domestic FDA inspections due to prior notification going to foreign firms.

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