In Brief: FDA cosmetics budget
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA cosmetics budget: FDA's cosmetics safety and labeling program budget is slated to grow 6.6% to $6.7 mil. in fiscal year 1996, with 70 full-time equivalents, FDA says in a "justification" document for its FY 1996 budget request to Congress. Based on current estimates, the cosmetics budget for FY 1995 is $6.3 mil., with 71 FTEs. Of the $6.7 mil. proposed for the cosmetics program in FY 1996, $300,000 would be used for cosmetic samples analysis and $200,000 would be earmarked to cosmetics inspections. Cosmetics Safety and Labeling would account for 2.9% of the proposed foods programs budget of $232.9 mil., which would grow 8.6%, or $18.4 mil., from the fiscal 1995 budget estimate of $214.6 mil...