Did you know the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Inspection Services Division (ISD) works to protect California food and environmental safety?
For example, in 2023, ISD’s Fertilizing Materials Inspection Program reviewed and registered 4,472 conventional fertilizer labels and obtained 1,423 fertilizer samples for laboratory analysis; ISD leadership joined discussions with federal, state, industry and academia to advance a strategy to enhance food safety in California; and ISD’s Center for Analytical Chemistry ran 17,958 laboratory analyses on 10,911 samples resulting in 5 million data points.
This and more information about the efforts of ISD staff may be found in the Inspection Services Division 2023 Annual Report.