date:Jan 07, 2013
full implementation would cost the government. Resources are going to continue to be an issue, Hamburg admitted.
An estimate from the Congressional Budget of the Office pegged the cost at $645 million a year by 2015, but budget constraints in Washington have kept the FDA from getting any significant increase in funding for food safety. So Hamburg and Taylor's caginess may be a sign that they expect implementation to cost the government whatever Congress is willing to pay -- which may be very l