Adding Up Obama’s Proposed Increases to FDA Budget


Published On: May 8th, 2009

ObamaThe White House released details of President Obama’s proposed budget for the 2010 fiscal year today. The whole deal is online here; Here’s the proposed budget for Health and Human Services.

The WSJ is reporting that the budget includes a $300 million funding boost for the FDA, the largest in the agency’s history.

There are increases pretty much across the board, with a particularly large bump for the agency’s regulation of food — a topic that’s received much attention over the past year.

Here are a few of the key details from the proposed FDA budget.

Program 2008 2009 (est.) 2010 (est.)
Foods $508 million $649 million $783 million
Drugs $605 million $713 million $800 million
Devices and radiological products $238 million $281 million $315 million
National Center for Toxicological Research $44 million $52 million $59 million


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Adding Up Obama’s Proposed Increases to FDA Budget

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