FDA funding future brightens

The Scientist writes FDA funding future brightens:

The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a whopping budget of more than two billion dollars for the FDA in 2009.  On Thursday (July 17), the committee unanimously passed the markup, which would represent an increase of more than $324 million over the FDA's 2008 budget and the first time the agency's budget would breech the two billion dollar mark.

The FDA budget boost is part of a larger bill, totaling almost $20.5 billion, that also contains provisions for global food assistance, rental assistance for some low-income households, and rural development.

This has to be considered a good thing; for those of us who work with the FDA, we can't help but be impressed by the diligence of their examiners, and the amount of work they're asked to take on...