date:Jul 24, 2012
et for food in the world - doing only 3 or 4 audits a year in the U.S. that there would be a large asymmetry if FDA were allowed to audit hundreds of individual European companies.
Also, FDA's authority to charge companies being audited for the service probably is not going to go over in Europe. We don't charge for inspections, says Antolinez.
European and American food laws are at their roots largely the same, Antolinez said. He said the EU's food law was dramatically changed in the late 199