FDA Floats Third-Party Lab Accreditation For Foreign Inspections – Acheson
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
A planned program to accredit third-party laboratories for food safety inspection is "particularly valuable ... with regard to foreign manufacturers, where FDA is unable to inspect [them] on any kind of regular basis," according to Assistant Commissioner for Food Protection David Acheson
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