Bush Asks Congress To Give FDA More Money For Food Safety

President Bush has asked Congress to increase the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) budget for next year by an extra 275 million dollars; the plea comes during a nationwide outbreak of salmonella food poisoining from suspected raw red tomatoes and a year marked by difficulties in regulating imported drugs such as the Chinese heparin that has been linked to dozens of deaths and hundreds of people with serious side effects.

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Filed under: Nutrition / Diet on June 11th, 2008