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FDA commissioner endorses legislation to improve food safety

10/23/09

Margaret Hamburg the Food and Drug Administration Commissioner strongly endorsed legislation that would give her agency new tools to improve food safety. She stated that in order for the consumers to benefit from these tools Congress needs to figure out how to finance the new ideas.

The proposed "changes would require significant additional manpower and costly new computer systems, Hamburg told the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee." Committee Chairman Tom Harkin (D-IA) "urged the FDA to come up with cost estimates quickly because, he said, he didn't want to pass a bill that would be undermined by inadequate funding."

Hamburg said the bill needs to be stronger and give that agency more authority as well as funding, asking that the Senate's bill more closely resemble that one that passed the House in July.

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