FDA Is Looking Into Drones for Health Inspections

Nextgov: Aerial drones could soon replace some of the Food and Drug Administration’s health inspectors, but the agency is still in the early stages of deciding how much data to collect and how to use it.

The federal agency must comply not only with regulations Federal Aviation Administration surrounding aerial unmanned vehicles—including where they can be flown—the FDA must also ensure that its technology complies with the 2014 Food Safety Modernization Act’s guidelines for inspections, Cory Milam, the FDA’s Office of Innovation Director, said at a Wednesday event hosted by trade group ACT-IAC.

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