Administration Should Stop Requesting FSMA User Fees, Lawmakers Say

Democratic House appropriators are asking the Obama administration to stop asking for food industry user fees since all previous requests for the fees have been rejected and there is little chance they would be embraced by Congress in a fiscal year 2016 budget. In a letter sent to HHS Wednesday (Aug. 27), Reps. Rosa DeLauro (CT) and Sam Farr (CA) said the repeated requests for the fees to implement the Food Safety Modernization Act are hiding the true costs of...