[Opinion] Publisher's Platform: Senators step up to help save FDA funding of state inspection programs

Publisher's Platform: Senators step up to help save FDA funding of state inspection programs

- OPINION -- Democratic senators are expressing alarm about planned budget reallocations at the Food and Drug Administration that they fear will threaten

Senators step up to help save FDA funding of State Inspection Programs

Democratic senators are expressing alarm about planned budget reallocations at the Food and Drug Administration that they fear will threaten the nation’s food safety system. In a letter to FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Jim Jones released Wednesday, Democratic Sens. Richard Blumenthal (Conn.), Tina Smith (Minn.), Cory Booker (N.J.) and Dick Durbin (Ill.) wrote that shifting funds away from the Office of Inspections and Investigation wou…