FDA appropriations
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Adverse Events Reporting System would receive $7.6 mil. in FY 2003 funding under Senate Agriculture Appropriations bill, which unanimously passed out of committee July 25. CAERS funding represents $2 mil. more than budget request. Measure also provides $2 mil. for botanical research carried out by FDA, U-Miss. center. Bill calls for $149.3 mil. in funding for CFSAN and total FDA funding of $1.39 bil., which is $23.4 mil. more than budget request. Full Senate vote has yet to be scheduled...
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