United States Food and Drug Chief Inspector

The United States Food and Drug Chief Inspector is the chief, the top dog, the head honcho. They’re the person in charge. That’s no small job when your task is to make sure every beverage, food product, cosmetic, and pharmaceutical drug in the country is safe for use.

If you’re the United States Food and Drug Chief Inspector, you command a staff of United States Food and Drug Inspectors. They spend their days in the field inspecting food, drink, medical, and cosmetic facilities. They follow paper trails and collect product samples, which are sent back to governmental labs for testing. And if they find anything amiss, the guilty parties are fined, or even shuffled off to jail.

But these Inspectors can only perform their job because you provide them with the resources to do it. You also review their reports, ask questions, and follow up with compliance issues. You constantly follow industry news so you can stay up to date with changes in policy, the effect of a wet winter on oranges, and the side effects of a popular medicinal ingredient. In addition, you compile information and create reports of your own. This might be a desk job, but you juggle so many files that it’s more like a circus act.

As the United States Food and Drug Chief Inspector, you report to the Chief of Bureau, so you’d better know your stuff. And when a bacterial outbreak occurs, you can expect some long days. When this happens, you help create and enforce new policies so that it doesn’t happen again.