FDA to get only slight increase in food-safety funding - (USA Today)
December 19, 2007 – 10:25 pmThe Food and Drug Administration is, according to this story, scheduled to receive a modest increase in food-safety funding next year despite calls from many corners that it needs far more to keep up with soaring imports and heightened food-safety concerns.
A $516 billion spending bill working its way through Congress includes $513 million for FDA food-safety programs, up $56 million from the 2007 fiscal year. The new budget is for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.
The appropriation is 12% more than the agency got for food safety in fiscal 2007. But half the increase will be eaten up by annual cost increases, including pay raises, and the FDA won’t get the other half until July and only then if it has a performance plan in place that lawmakers find adequate.
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