Food, Supplement Programs On Front Burner In FDA Budget Request

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

FDA asks for no direct appropriation increase for its drug programs, but again proposes additional user fees. The Obama administration's final budget proposal faces as much or more opposition than in any other session of a Republican-majority Congress during President Obama's two terms.

The narrative framing FDA's fiscal 2017 budget request emphasizes food safety as the agency asks to increase user fees for food and dietary supplement programs from just over $11m to more than $180m, partly by creating new fees, while boosting direct spending by around $25m.

The FDA request, part of the fiscal 2017 budget proposals for federal agencies the White House submitted to Congress on...

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