FDA Gets Last-Minute Bump For FDA Food Safety, Ebola, Compounding

Congress' massive 2015 spending package gives FDA food safety activities a bump above the amount Senate and House appropriators had originally allocated, accounting for more than half of the $37 million increase in FDA's budget that also beefs up FDA's compounding oversight, drug counterfeit controls and antimicrobial resistance monitoring program. The spending agreement also sets aside a one-time $25 million funding pot for Ebola-related efforts, but withholds $20 million from salaries and expenses until FDA's opioid guidance is finalized, The...