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Biden Leaves US FDA Largely Out Of Budget Outline

 
• By Derrick Gingery

FDA is only mentioned once in the document, and its temporary leadership may not be the reason why.

Discarded federal budget documents.
Like these from past years, many likely will discard President Biden's budget proposal. • Source: Alamy

Stakeholders hoping for hints about President Biden’s plans for the US Food and Drug Administration in his fiscal year 2022 budget outline were left wanting, but the lack of any real information is not surprising or necessarily conclusion-generating.

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