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Food and Drug Administration: Selected Funding and Policy Issues (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Feb. 27, 2001
Report Number 95-422
Authors Donna U. Vogt, Science, Technology, and Medicine Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Actof 1997 (FDAMA) created many regulatory changes and new tasks and deadlines for theagency. In the President's FY1999 budget request for FDA, the agency requested a totalof $1.264 billion, of which $970 million would be in budget authority, $281 millionwould be collected in user fees, and $13 million would come from other reimbursableactivities. If funded, almost $50 million will be used for the President's food safetyinitiatives and $134 million will be used to reduce young people's use of tobacco.