Food Import Inspection Capability "Badly Broken"

A new report outlines serious deficiencies in the Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for safeguarding 80% of the American food supply.

The report lays out a litany of concerns that have become familiar in the past few months, after repeated import food and drug safety scares. Namely, as USA Today outlines, the FDA lacks the money, personnel and expertise to inspect food manufacturing facilities and inspect imports (that responsibility is "badly broken," in the words of the report).

While the list of concerns is now familiar, what is remarkable is the source of the findings: not outsider advocacy groups, but insiders at the FDA, as well as panelists from other federal agencies, academia and industry.

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