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# Senate Ag Appropriations Bill Heads to Full Committee
- URL: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2015/07/senate-ag-appropriations-bill-heads-to-full-committee/
- Published: 2015-07-15T05:02:09.000Z
- Updated: 2018-07-31T06:58:01.000Z
- Author: Lydia Zuraw
- Tags: Food Policy & Law, Food Politics, Government Agencies, agriculture appropriations, Congress, FDA, food safety, FY 2016 federal budget, Senate, Senate Appropriations Committee, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-25 10:59

The Senate’s FY 2016 agriculture appropriations bill has received [subcommittee approval](http://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings-and-testimony/subcommittee-markup-fy16-agriculture-rural-development-fda-appropriations?ref=foodsafetynews.com) and will be considered by the full appropriations committee on Thursday. The bill includes a $45-million increase for the Food and Drug Administration’s food safety activities. Although $3.5 million more than [the House allocation](https://www.foodsafetynews.com/house-ag-appropriations-bill-gives-fsma-41-5-million-increase/), the increase is still less than half of the $109.5-million increase [requested](https://www.foodsafetynews.com/obama-2016-budget-includes-1-6-billion-for-food-safety/) in the president’s budget.

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For the Department of Agriculture, the legislation allocates $1.014 billion for food safety and inspection programs. The enacted levels for 2015 were $1.016 billion, while the administration requested $1.012 billion for 2016\. The committee members stated that this level of funding will ensure safe food for consumers and go toward “promoting the safety and productivity of the nation’s $186 billion meat and poultry industry.” The overall funding in the Senate agriculture appropriations bill is $24 billion below the president’s budget request and $3.7 billion below the FY 2015 enacted level.

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