US FDA Authority over Imports
This article was originally published in SRA
Executive Summary
In recent years, the US Food and Drug Administration has faced increasing challenges in overseeing the safety of agency-regulated products generally, and particularly imported pharmaceutical products from developing countries. The agency carries out several hundred inspections each year of foreign pharmaceutical establishments that ship products to the US. The number inspected each year, however, is only a small fraction of the total.
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