date:Aug 22, 2012
$33.2m for foreign registered facilities.
FSMA categorized different food facilities as high-risk or non-high-risk.
The report said that the agency is still working on how to categorize a facility as high-risk or not, and that the cost of inspections depended on a number of other variables as well as risk level, such as facility size and how many different products are produced there. Among the 22,325 domestic food firms designated as high-risk, the FDA inspected about half of them in 2011. I