Budget sequester to limit FDA inspections


From USA Today:




Categories: Food/dining media, News
Steve Barnes

6 Responses

  1. Willie Pittman says:

    Rejoice, Neanderthals! Your food will get just a little bit less safe, thanks to the proactive synergy-leveraging by your henchmen in Congress.

    You can meditate on it while you’re waiting around for your late plane flights.

  2. jv says:

    I understand with budget cuts why they would have to scale back on inspections, however, it makes no sense to me why they would announce it (other than to bring attention to the budget cuts). That’s like saying “there will be no DWI patrols this weekend.”

  3. Jason says:

    The FDA 2012 budget was $3.8 billion.
    The FDA 2013 budget was supposed to be $4.5 billion. Subtracting the budget cuts due to the sequester brings the 2013 budget to just under $4.3 billion. That is still about a half billion dollar budget increase from 2012. Soooo… why are they reducing inspections?

    Source: The FDA http://www.fda.gov/downloads/AboutFDA/ReportsManualsForms/Reports/BudgetReports/UCM243370.pdf

  4. elmer says:

    I could be mistaken but I believe the genius o fthe sequester is that the cuts must come from specific allocations, they can’t just move money around within an agency.

    They are being announced in an effort to build a public call to fix the problem. Governmental agencies operate just like any other political animal.

    • Mickey says:

      Makes one hope that there are no FDA inspections of the Washington restaurants that serve members of Congress so the peons who wait tables and work the kitchen can perpetrate any manner of foul play and shenanigans that a sick imagination can conjure up….;-)

    • Willie Pittman says:

      So what’s happening? Congress is jumping through hoops to get the highly publicized air traffic problems solved, while the rest of the injustices perpetrated by sequestration go unnoticed (except by those unfortunates they affect, which are mostly the poor) and undealt with.

      Good show, Congress! :-(