Meridith Seife: Are FDA inspectors keeping ahead of food poisoning threat?

The Food Safety Modernization Act requires Food and Drug Administration inspectors to check out certain high-risk food factories at regular intervals.

If you’ve experienced a touch of food poisoning in the last year, you’ve got lots of company. About 48 million Americans get food poisoning every year. The Food Safety Modernization Act requires Food and Drug Administration inspectors to check out certain high-risk food factories at regular intervals. How are they doing? Meridith Seife, the deputy regional inspector general at the Department of Health and Human Services, provides some answers on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.

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