Obama’s 2016 Budget Includes Food Safety Funding and Proposal of New Agency
The oversight of food safety has been given a major boost with President Barack Obama’s proposed $4 trillion fiscal year 2016 budget. According to the official budget, it includes “$1.6 billion in total program resources to bolster food safety activities, including an increase of $301 million for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to implement new safety measures under the Food Safety Modernization Act for domestic and imported foods.”
Along with new funding comes a number of court-ordered deadlines the FDA must meet:
The current plan is for part of the food safety funds to be allocated as follows: