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FDA asks for additional funds after wave of criticism

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The Food and Drug Administration addressed the Congress Monday with a request to allocate $275 million for import protection. The FDA asked for the additional amount after the agency was criticized for its attempts to do too much with insufficient resources. With the help of this amount the FDA will hire 490 people and establish a presence overseas. In addition, the agency will modernize its information technology infrastructure and hold more inspections in other countries. House lawmakers criticized the FDA in April for its insufficient inspections of foreign pharmaceutical companies. The criticism followed a string of problems with contaminated doses of blood thinner, which most likely arrived from a Chinese plant that the FDA never inspected.

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