Congress is heating up to make some budget decisions just as temperatures in Washington, D.C., have turned hot. The Food and Drug Administration has requested $ 7.2 billion for the president’s fiscal year (FY) 2025 proposed budget.
Budget requests are for the period from Oct. 1, 2024, through Sept. 30
Continue Reading Timing predicted for food safety budget decisions for 2025
Ever since federal penalties totaling $1.5 million were imposed earlier this year on 13 meat plants contracting in eight states with Packers Sanitation Services Inc. for employing children in critical food safety jobs, the story has not gone away.
Child labor restrictions typically fall under federal or state Labor Departments.
Continue Reading The food industry, especially meat producers, appears to be at the center of stepped-up child labor enforcement
The Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, has voted to approve a bipartisan deal, which includes policies to respond to the nation’s infant formula crisis.
Its title is the “FDA Safety and Landmark Advancements (FDASLA) Act. “
“Families need accountability from FDA and formula manufacturers, and they desperately need formula—and
Continue Reading Senate bill dictates infant formula fix
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The U.S. Senate confirmed Dr. Robert Califf as Commissioner of Food and Drugs by a 50-46 vote only a few weeks ago. And the FDA Commissioner had to spend this week bouncing back and forth between the House and Senate, testifying for hours about the infant formula
Continue Reading Letter from the Editor: Careful what you step in when on Capitol Hill
A subcommittee of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee is set to begin a hearing on infant formula shortages, which are related to recalls of products linked to an outbreak of cronobacter infections.
The Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee is scheduled to open the hearing on May 25, according to
Continue Reading Congressional subcommittee to investigate shortages of infant formula linked to outbreak
U.S. Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), Chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, sent a letter to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Robert M. Califf urging answers and immediate action following a Politico report that lays bare a culture of delay and inaction in the agency’s
Continue Reading Senator demands answers from FDA
Dr. Susan Mayne of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition was scheduled to speak to the Alliance for a Stronger FDA Tuesday morning, the first such appearance since the Politico newspaper called her out.
Politico reported that Mayne, the director of the Center, reports directly to the
Continue Reading FDA’s recently maligned CFSAN director speaks out in defense of budget
An important step on the road to confirmation for President Obama’s choice as the next U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) commissioner will be taken this coming Tuesday. That’s when the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee will hold a full public hearing on Dr. Robert Califf’s nomination.
Continue Reading Obama’s Choice for FDA Commissioner Gets Senate Hearing on Tuesday
