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According to Mr. Thompson, the FDA has been chronically under-funded in carrying out its responsibilities for ensuring the safety of drugs, medical devices, and the nation’s food supply. While the FDA is commonly viewed as the global gold standard for consumer protection, it faces stiff competition for scarce resources and over the past 20 years has been tasked to do far more with its limited resources. As noted in Chapter 1, for example, the Coalition for a Stronger FDA (www.fdacoalition.org), comprising consumer, patient, industry, and nonprofit groups, reports that the FDA regulates products representing roughly 25 percent of all consumer spending, yet it is expected to meet its expanding mandate with only a fraction of the budget of its sister public health agencies—the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). In 1986, the FDA’s budget was 97 percent of CDC’s budget; by 1996, this figure was just 39 percent and by 2006, just 28 percent. Likewise, in 1986 and 1996, the FDA’s budget was merely 8 percent of the NIH budget and by 2006, only 5 percent (Figure 2-1).People were not supposed to look like this
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