Food safety predominated at the first congressional review of the administration’s fiscal 2013 FDA budget proposal Feb. 29, prompting members of the House Appropriations Agriculture/FDA Subcommittee to revisit two issues that have failed to pass in previous Congresses – removal of food safety from the FDA agenda and food facility registration fees.
Republicans raised the issues as the panel questioned FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg about the $4.5 billion budget request, whose funding would include $583 million in new user fees that have...
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