FDA

nytimes.com — The Food and Drug Administration needs far more money than the White House has proposed for next year, senators of both parties said Tuesday. “To us, it’s clear that they’re seriously underfunded,” Senator Herb Kohl, Democrat of Wisconsin, said after a hearing of the Appropriations subcommittee, headed by Mr. Kohl, that oversees the agency’s spending.

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hosted.ap.org — A key House Democrat says that the head of the Food and Drug Administration should resign in the wake of a probe over an antibiotic and news of a blood thinner linked to allergic reactions and four deaths.

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nytimes.com — A Chinese factory that has not been inspected by the Food and Drug Administration is the source for the active ingredient of heparin, a critical blood-thinning drug. production of heparin was suspended after 350 patients became ill effects from it, and at least four people died after being given the drug.

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washingtonpost.com — With more and more prescription drugs and drug ingredients coming to the U.S. from nations such as China and India, Congress is voicing concern that the number of inspections of foreign plants by the Food and Drug Administration has grown far more slowly.

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