Appropriators Boost FDA Budget For Food Safety While Opposing Lab Closings
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
House and Senate appropriators make it known in reports on FDA's fiscal 2008 appropriation that they question the agency's plan to close more than half of its field labs, with the House bill specifically banning funding for the reorganization
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