FDA Budget Request Shows Optimism For Broad Food Safety User Fees
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA's fiscal 2011 budget request is the latest nudge to Congress that the agency prefers food safety legislation with both expansive and targeted user fees over targeted fees alone
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