The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could get a budget boost this year with President requesting $ 4.3 billion , more than a third of it from regulatory fees paid by companies. This total is more than $ 1 billion more than the amount of the 2010 FDA budget provided a number of new initiatives and knows the enlarged authority in areas such as food safety and tobacco control. But despite an image outward pink, the agency has not the money in hand, it must fulfill an expanded mandate.
2012 may or may not be the year that the FDA gets to flex some new muscles. Among other things, the President requested $ 324 million for a new food security initiative to allow the FDA to implement the Law on the modernization of the recently adopted food safety, to reduce foodborne illness. FDA also wants $ 49 million in strengthening regulatory science, for example finding better ways to understand the toxicity of drugs.
A continuing resolution just passed by appropriators in the House of Representatives only provides $ 3.3 billion for its 2011 budget, far from the FDA goal Administration 2012-suggesting that it may be difficult to find common ground.
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