During the previous administration the FDA was emasculated and the thought was that the companies would police themselves out of their own self interest. But as with the banking sector and most areas they (companies) are only beholden to the bottom line (or their shareholders) NOT to the common good. Regulation is in the interest of the public good. Those that choose to self regulate should feel little if any effect. Those that cut corners or obfuscate should be shaking in their boots. Can anyone now argue that deregulation has been a GOOD thing? Think about Banks,the food chain, health care, insurance. I argue NOT! They have generally no conscience! Whatever-however they make $ is appropriate
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FDA requests more funding
- Sunday, 07 February 2010
If you are not aware of what things that could be blamed as the fault of the FDA, then allow me to state a few cases. There were cases were peanut butter products had salmonella in them in the good old United States of America (2009), contaminated milk from china that killed four children (2008) and salmonella contaminated jalapenos from mexico (2008). In the cases shown above, all the products were allowed to be consumed within our borders.
The FDA is doing this in most part to follow the president's 2011 fiscal budget. the FDA's budget will be raised by 23% to become $4.03 billion. Of the 23% increase, $318.3 million will go to Transforming Food Safety, $215 million to Tobacco related items , $100.8 milllion will go to Protecting Patients, and the remaining $25 milling will go towards Advancing Regulatory Science.
For more information about what and how the increase funding will be used, please to the the FDA site. Source
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2010-02-19 12:56:18 |Registered| Stevor
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