Regulatory compliance with manufacturing rules and quality assurance in the pharmaceutical industry was the subject of an investigative report conducted by the New York Times and published on October 17, 2012.  The article focused on six major manufacturers of sterile injectable drugs to which the Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) has issued warnings in the [...]

The Food Integrity Campaign, a project of the Government Accountability Project, reported yesterday that two United States Department of Agriculture (“USDA”) inspectors who were assigned to the Snokist Growers fruit processing plant in Washington state reported concerns about moldy applesauce to their supervisor but were repeatedly ignored.  The inspectors alleged that packaging leaks would cause [...]

A nationwide outbreak of listeria believed to be caused by the consumption of bacterially tainted cantaloupe which killed 25 people has brought increasing attention to the role of workers in the food industry in protecting consumers from corporate negligence and lapses in regulatory oversight. The outbreak, which experts have traced back to a shed operated by Jensen Farms in [...]

According to a recent audit of 17 food recalls, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) violates its own policies when attempting to tackle contaminated – or ‘adulterated’ – imported food.  The New York Times reports that the recall audit included listeria-infected mussels from New Zealand, salmonella-tainted cantaloupes from Honduras and fish from Korea containing [...]