Category Archives: FDABetween now and October FDA needs to deliver a draft plan on how to spend a $364-million IT budget to modernizing its IT systems. The GAO expects, “A comprehensive IT strategic plan, including results-oriented goals and performance measures, is vital for guiding and coordinating the agency’s numerous ongoing modernization projects and activities.”
From drug safety snafus dating as far back as Vioxx to last year’s heparin scandal, from melamine in dog food to salmonella in peanut butter, the FDA has spent beaucoups hours fighting fires. Meanwhile, dispassionate observers such as the Government Accountability Office have advised big-time changes for the agency, and its own Science Board said it was so seriously understaffed and underfunded that it couldn’t ensure the safety of food or drugs in the U.S.
the Obama administration wants to hike the FDA’s budget by 19 percent to $3.2 billion for fiscal 2010. That’s a whopping increase: In dollar terms, it amounts to about half a billion, Reuters reports. A good billion or so of the total comes from industry via user fees.
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