Letter to FDA

Here is the link to a letter from members of Congress to the FDA with a tersely worded request for information about planned lab closings by the agency. The June 15 letter, from Rep. John Dingell, D-Mich. with Rep. Bart Stupak, D-Mich., asks the agency to provide Congress with a detailed explanation of what inspection services will go away if the labs are closed and more than 190 scientific specialists are cut from the agency. That number is about 40% of the total number of lab analysts working with the Office of Regulatory Affairs, the letter observes. With food imports doubling every five years, the Congressmen called planned reductions "deeply disturbing."