The FSIS budget has become one of the more delicate political issues in the past few years because of the 2011 Budget Control Act that reestablished the sequestration process.
The subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration and Related Agencies of the House Appropriations Committee held a hearing yesterday on the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS). At the hearing, Deputy Undersecretary for Food Safety Al Almanza noted that the president's FY 2016 budget request for FSIS was set at $1.012 billion including $60.9 million for state inspection programs, $3.7 million for Codex and an additional $2.5 million for catfish inspection. Indeed, the 2008 and 2014 Farm Bills contained provisions requiring USDA to e...
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