The Enormous Job of Food Inspection

It is so difficult for authorities to inspect even a minute amount of the enormous amount of the pet food products coming into the country. This makes it all the more important for consumers to ask questions and demand answers of what is really contained in these products.


FDA likely to boost inspections of imported food

By Jane Zhang

Wall Street Journal

June 17, 2007 6:00 AM

WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is likely to propose a major shift in how it inspects and regulates imported food, as Americans continue to devour vast amounts of imported, and sometimes exotic, food.

The goal is to shift to a "risk-based" system under which FDA inspectors, using extensive information, would focus on shipments posing the biggest potential hazards. To do that, the agency would collect much more data from overseas on how foods are produced and handled — called "life-cycle" data — and feed it into a database for its inspectors.

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