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, 2025. Funding requested by the FDA would enhance food safety and nutrition, advance medical product safety, help support supply chain resiliency, strengthen the agency’s public health and mission-support capacity, and modernize the FDA’s infrastructure and facilities.
The request includes an increase of $495 million — or 7.4 percent above the FY 2023 funding level. It includes $15 million to protect and promote a safe, nutritious U.
S. food supply. Funds for the FDA’s human foods initiatives will modernize the FDA’s capacity to prevent or mitigate foodborne illness outbreaks by investing in necessary tools and processes to strengthen root-cause investigations.
For the status of the various budget requests, many rely on Steven Grossman, Executive Director of the Alliance for a Stronger FDA. He reports that the Full House Appropriations Committee will likely hold a markup session on July 10. “The formal full committee markup of the Agriculture/FDA bill has not yet been announced, which is no surprise given that the House is in recess this week.
Nonetheless, the expectation is that the mark-up will be July 10. The House will be in recess the week of July 15, so the bi.