President Obama's FY 2013 budget resolution includes new user fee programs that would support applying key elements of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA). This is in the form of a food facility registration fee to fund agency activities required by the FSMA. If authorized by Congress, FDA projects that the user fees would collect $220 million in FY 2013 from food producers, makers and distributors.The FSMA user fee is the latest in a long line of user fees that have been proposed for more than 30 years, dating back to the Reagan Administration. There is almost always a proposed user fee for the Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS). The Obama budget has it and the Reagan budget had it. In fact, there are a lot of fees in this year's...
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Accountability and a comprehensive approach to export programming
WPI’s team helped construct a strategic approach to develop, implement, and track promotional activities in 8 key regions across the globe for an agricultural export association. With continued progress measurement and strategic advisory services from WPI, the association has seen its ROI from investments in promotional programming increase by 44 percent over the past 5 years. Not only does this type of holistic approach to organizational strategy provide measurable results to track and analyze, it fosters top-down and bottom-up organizational accountability.