Hutt on FDA funding
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
"There is a limit to which you can fund all of FDA's needed activities out of user fees," former FDA chief counsel Peter Barton Hutt stated during the Chemical Heritage Foundation's FDA Centennial Conference in Philadelphia, Penn. May 16. "FDA today is being starved to death by the United States Congress and by the people of this country. I wish that somehow we could make known to this country not just the importance of what FDA does, but the importance of having adequate resources available to the agency to do its job." Hutt currently serves as senior counsel with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C...