FDA 2007 Appropriations For Food, Drug Centers Outstrip Bush Request
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and related activities are funded at $567.59 million for fiscal 2007 under the continuing resolution passed by Congress Feb. 14 and signed into law Feb. 15
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