Federal Reports

Our ongoing audit of FDA's food recall program found that FDA did not have an efficient and effective food recall initiation process that helps ensure the safety of the Nation's food supply. Specifically, FDA did not have policies and procedures to ensure that firms or responsible parties initiated voluntary food recalls promptly. As a result, consumers remained at risk of illness or death for several weeks after FDA was aware of a potentially hazardous food in the supply chain.

The data in CDC's property system were neither accurate nor complete. Of the 250 items we sampled from the property system, we located 245. CDC had classified the remaining five items as missing. We also found 14 items costing $3.1 million that were not barcoded or accurately recorded in the property system. On the basis of these sample results, we estimated that $29.2 million of CDC property was at risk of being lost or misplaced. Human error was responsible for the inaccurate recording of existing property in the property system.