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Requiring Infant Formula, Medical Food Shortage Updates Included In US FDA Budget Request

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

FDA’s justification report published with Biden administration’s FY2022 federal budget request includes $1.194bn for agency’s food programs, which include its oversight of supplement industry, up from $1.11bn in FY2021 appropriation.

The US Food and Drug Administration requests not only nearly $84m more funding for its food programs in fiscal year 2022, it wants Congress to allow it to require infant formula and medical food makers to advise the agency when they anticipate shortages in supplies.

The FDA’s justification report published on 28 March along with the Biden administration’s request for the overall FY2022 federal budget includes a total of $1.194bn for the agency’s overall food...

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• By Eileen Francis

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• By Eileen Francis

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• By Eileen Francis

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• By Malcolm Spicer

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