date:Aug 22, 2012
t also inspected 995 foreign registered food facilities, of a total of 254,088, and physically examined 2.3 percent of food import lines, or 243,400 out of more than 10 million.
During 2011, the FDA said that average costs for inspecting a domestic high-risk facility were $21,100, while non-high-risk facility inspections cost $14,200 on average. Foreign high-risk facility inspections averaged $24,800 per inspection, the report said.
In addition, the report said that FDA worked on building an i