FDA has major overseas backlog

[partly personal - but an example of government at work]

US FDA’s current staffing is at levels that would take “at least 27 years to inspect every foreign medical device plant that exports to the United States, 13 years to check every foreign drug plant and 1,900 years to examine every foreign food plant, according to government investigators,” the New York Times reports. “The situation is particularly dire in China, which has more drug and device plants than any other foreign nation but where FDA inspections are few.”

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