FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg announced Thursday six "initial" steps the agency will be taking to boost its policing of food, drug and medical device companies, in a well-publicized speech that food industry attorneys agree signals more enforcement to come from the Obama administration.Speaking at a Washington, D.C., meeting hosted by the Food and Drug Law Institute and broadcast over the Internet, just two months after her appointment, Hamburg characterized FDA's current enforcement process as plagued by "a lot of back and forth" and "stall and delay.""Reports have noted that there has been a steep decline in the FDA's enforcement activity over the past several years," Hamburg said. "At the same time, many of the enforcement actions that the FDA has undertaken have been hampered by unreasonable delays." Serious violations have gone unaddressed for too long, she added.
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