Smokescreen? FDA Won’t Say How It Spends User Fees

Is the FDA secretly funding non-profits to lobby?

The Great Room in Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Building 31 is seen on April 30, 2010. U.S. FDA

Commentary

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is funded by Congress, but it also collects “user fees” from regulated industries to fund testing and regulation of those industries’ products. By law, fees from the dairy industry must be used only to ensure dairy products are safe—they can’t go toward overseeing the safety of cold medications.