{"id":15259,"date":"2019-01-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/15\/fda-to-resume-inspections-of-riskier-foods\/"},"modified":"2019-01-16T16:56:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T16:56:52","slug":"fda-to-resume-inspections-of-riskier-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2019\/01\/15\/fda-to-resume-inspections-of-riskier-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA to Resume Inspections of Riskier Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Agency is bringing back about 150 unpaid employees for the inspections of riskier foods<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Jan. 15, 2019 (HealthDay News) &#8212; Routine inspections of riskier foods will resume as early as today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says.<\/p>\n<p>There was a brief halt in inspections of foods such as produce, infant formula, and cheeses due to the partial government shutdown, the <i>Associated Press<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA is bringing back about 150 unpaid employees for the inspections of riskier foods, FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D., said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Such foods account for about one-third of the FDA&#8217;s approximately 8,400 routine inspections of packaged foods and produce a year. Inspections of meat, poultry, and processed eggs are handled by the Department of Agriculture and have continued during the shutdown, the <i>AP<\/i> reported.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.apnews.com\/2b75bc3b3b034f27acd5d24f42cee3b3\" target=\"_new\"><i>AP News<\/i> Article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency is bringing back about 150 unpaid employees for the inspections of riskier foods<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15276,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-15259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}