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Jeff Merkley: “So, Mr. Taylor, you mentioned the foreign inspections, and FSMA mandated 600 inspections in 2011, with a doubling of the…”

On the recordMarch 11, 2015
So, Mr. Taylor, you mentioned the foreign inspections, and FSMA mandated 600 inspections in 2011, with a doubling of the previous year's inspection level for the subsequent 5 years, which would mean that in fiscal year 2015, we would have about 19,000 foreign inspections. And in fact, I believe that the Department plans to only conduct about 1,200.
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Jeff Merkley
Democratic · Oregon

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Merkley highlights a discrepancy in mandated vs. planned foreign inspections under FSMA.

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