Voluntary FDA Enforcement Blasted by Inspector General
Federal food safety inspectors, in recent years, discovered a facility with a leaky roof and the presence of a life-threatening bacteria. But Food and Drug Administration officials merely issued a warning to the firm’s owners, only to repeatedly discover the same problems over the next 24 months. “Three subsequent inspections documented that the facility did not correct the violations, and FDA continued to find unsanitary conditions and the presence of Listeria monocytogenes,” a federal watchdog report stated this week. The findings were among discoveries in…