Underfunded And Understaffed, FDA Isn't Meeting Foreign Food Inspection Targets (+...)

Underfunded And Understaffed, FDA Isn't Meeting Foreign Food Inspection Targets The cyclosporiasis outbreak has laid bare the shortcomings at the Food and Drug Administration, which lost inspectors during the covid pandemic and never recovered. Food experts say inspectors should have been on-site in Mexico at the farm tied to tainted lettuce sooner, considering the scale and number of people sickened, the AP reported. https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/tuesday-september-8-2026/