FDA Has Regulatory Science Plan; Now It Needs Funding
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
FDA Commissioner Hamburg is "guardedly optimistic" that Congress will give the agency funding beyond the continuing resolution that kept budgets at fiscal 2010 levels.
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