Group Of Senate Dems Asks Appropriators To Hike FDA Food Safety Funding

As House and Senate leaders worked last week to finalize a bicameral GOP 2016 budget resolution deal, seven high-profile Democratic senators sent negotiators a letter saying that recent food recalls show the need for lawmakers to embrace the $109.5 million funding bump for FDA requested by the president in order for the agency to implement the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA). The bicameral, nonbinding budget deal, which passed the House last week and and cleared the Senate Tuesday (May...