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The Office of Inspector General (OIG) recommends that FDA

(1) Improve how it handles attempted inspections to ensure better use of resources,
(2) take appropriate action against all facilities with significant inspection violations,
(3) Improve the timeliness of its actions so that facilities do not continue to operate under harmful conditions, and
(4) Conduct timely follow-up inspections to ensure that significant inspection violations are corrected.
FDA concurred with all four recommendations. @ http://www.marlerblog.com/files/2017/09/Food-Safety-InspectionsRpt.pdf

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The researchers discovered that transcription factors operate not as single molecules as was previously thought, but as a spherical football-like cluster of around seven to ten molecules of roughly 30 nanometres in diameter. The discovery of these nano footballs will not only help researchers understand more about the basic ways in which genes operate @ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170925111215.htm

Health officials are investigating eight cases of E. coli infection, however, to date, there is no information about the source of the outbreak. @ http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/e-coli-outbreak-hospitalizes-la-crosse-county-children-out-of/article_7b8ffc82-d57d-5943-b38d-01bcdc7a41d3.html