Excerpt from President Obama's 2012 Budget -$2.7B for FDA - 2/15/2011

Bolsters the Safety of the Nation’s Food
and Medicines. The Budget includes $2.7 billion
in budget authority and $4.4 billion in total
program resources for the Food and Drug Administration
(FDA). The Budget enables FDA to
further the core principles recommended by the
President’s Food Safety Working Group and implement
key elements of the Food Safety Modernization
Act. The Administration will work with
the Congress to enact additional food safety fees
to support the full implementation of the FDA
Food Safety Modernization Act and the Budget
reflects the collection of these fees in 2013 and beyond.
In 2012, FDA will advance efforts to implement
the ACA provisions to establish a pathway
to approve biosimilar products and to improve
nutrition labeling. To better protect health in response
to natural or intentional threats, the Administration also invests in FDA’s efforts to advance regulatory science and support the review
of new medical countermeasures for chemical, radiological,
biomedical, and nuclear threats.