Checking the food we import

If Martha Rosenberg is correct, there is not much checking done. We have only 200 full-time inspectors policing 300 U.S. ports. One result of this staffing is that 96 percent of shrimp shipments are not opened or checked at the ports. The FDA places faith in the suppliers; it uses an automated system that flags companies with prior offenses and only then inspects documents, opens shipments or send samples to a lab. Does this make sense to you?