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# Publisher’s Platform: Senators step up to help save FDA funding of state inspection programs
- URL: https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/01/publishers-platform-senators-step-up-to-help-save-fda-funding-of-state-inspection-programs/
- Published: 2025-01-31T05:06:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-01-30T22:58:14.000Z
- Author: Bill Marler
- Tags: Government Agencies, Opinion & Contributed Articles, Cory Booker, Dick Durbin, FDA funding, Jim Jones, Richard Blumenthal, Tina Smith, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-11-25 08:18

**— OPINION —**

Democratic senators are expressing alarm about planned budget reallocations at the Food and Drug Administration that they fear will threaten the nation’s food safety system.

In a letter to FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jones released Wednesday, Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Tina Smith (Minn.), Cory Booker (N.J.) and Dick Durbin (Ill.) wrote that shifting funds away from the Office of Inspections and Investigation would slash resources available to state and local food safety programs that conduct the majority of facility inspections.

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