FDA Budget: Compounding Increase Paid With Construction Funding, Efficiencies
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
Some planned buildings on the White Oak campus for fiscal 2015 would not be funded and savings from program efficiencies would create the $25 million in new funding for compounding oversight, Hamburg tells House committee.
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