House Appropriators Pass FDA Spending Bill With Cures Provisions, Food Safety Hike, Sodium Directive

The House Appropriations Committee passed an FDA spending bill Tuesday (April 19) that hikes funding for food safety oversight, inserts a handful of provisions from the House-passed 21st Century Cures bill, slates $10 million for FDA to combat Zika and Ebola outbreaks, and prevents FDA from limiting sodium in food until bodies outside the agency write dietary reference intake reports. The appropriators also moved forward with controversial report language blocking FDA from issuing final guidance on regulation of laboratory developed...

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