Senators Ask FDA to Keep Regional Labs
You may remember that I posted about the FDA closing some regional labs back in mid December. Now Some Senator including Ted Kennedy and Arlen Specter s are asking that the FDA not doing anything until it is reviewed by Congress.
Senators Ask FDA to Keep Regional Labs - washingtonpost.com:
They have written to Dr. von Eschenbach and asked that this be reviewed.
“We recognize that FDA faces serious budget constraints that force difficult choices, but it is far from clear that consolidating ORA labs is a reasonable response to these difficult constraints,” they wrote.
It will be interesting to follow up on this since the FDA had said these labs would be closed by April. That is a very short timeframe given how slow Congress usually is.
I am wondering, given the timing with the e.coli problems, if this wasn’t a gamble to increase their budget? I personally doubt it and think it is much more likely to have been a typical bureaucratic response to dealing with an insufficient budget.
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