FDA Foreign Drugs

The Food and Drug Administration said that they can no longer guarantee that the drugs that are sold in the United States are safe anymore, because 80% of all drug ingredients used in the United States are made in other countries. The FDA’s inspections abroad are so bad that they can no longer tell which drugs have been inspected. Inspections are also given by travel schedules and not need. The inspectors also give foreign drug companies a warning before they inspect the drugs.

The FDA began in 1862, with a chemist in the United States Department of Agriculture, who began testing food and drugs. In 1906, a law was passed, the Federal Food and Drugs Act, which added the first regulatory tasks for the FDA. Now, the company has over 9,000 employees and about one-third of them are stationed outside of Washington D.C.