Top FDA Official: Agency ‘Creative,’ ‘Efficient,’ ‘Focused’ After COVID-19 Domestic Inspection Hiatus

William Maisel says FDA investigators are putting their best foot forward when conducting facility inspections amidst the coronavirus pandemic.

Enlarged eye of tax inspector looking through magnifying glass, inspecting offshore company financial papers, documents and reports.

A top US Food and Drug Administration official says the agency is being “very creative” and “efficient” as it sends its inspectorate back into the field to conduct on-site routine surveillance inspections following a four-month hiatus.

The FDA stopped performing inspections in March at manufacturing facilities in the US and abroad. The agency resumed domestic audits...

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