WASHINGTON — The Bush administration on Monday proposed boosting funding to better protect the food supply, including opening an office in China.
In its fiscal 2009 budget, the White House proposed raising expenditures for food programs at the Food and Drug Administration to $543 million from an estimated $510 million in the prior year.
Overall, the White House requested an FDA budget of $2.4 billion for the 2009 fiscal year starting October 1, up only slightly from fiscal 2008.
Food safety has been a growing worry for U.S. consumers with reports of tainted bagged spinach and peanut butter along with a range of scares involving food and toys from China.
Last November, the Bush administration made proposals to better protect the country's food supply that included working closer with foreign governments to prevent dangerous foods from entering the United States.
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