Jones: FDA Budget Could Mean Reduction In State Food Safety Dollars

FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jones is warning that the lack of a significant budget increase for the agency in fiscal 2024, likely to be repeated in fiscal 2025, will endanger food-related priorities and reduce the amount of money FDA is able to send to states for food safety efforts. “We have long faced a gap between what is needed and what is available, and each year that gap grows larger,” Jones said at a webinar hosted by...