Ensuring the safety of food and the quality and safety of medicines in a country is an important role of government, made more complicated by global manufacturi
Globalization is rapidly changing lives and industries around the world. Drug development, authorization, and regulatory supervision have become international e
The adulteration and fraudulent manufacture of medicines is an old problem, vastly aggravated by modern manufacturing and trade. In the last decade, impotent an
A very high portion of the seafood we eat comes from abroad, mainly from China and Southeast Asia, and most of the active ingredients in medicines we take origi
Recent outbreaks of illnesses traced to contaminated sprouts and lettuce illustrate the holes that exist in the system for monitoring problems and preventing fo