E Federal Food Safety Budget Information
To assist the committee in determining the size and scope of the federal food safety budget, the committee asked the four major departments/agencies with responsibility for food safety to provide budget estimates for federal funds spent during the past four fiscal years. The agencies were requested to submit responses based on their involvement in one or more of five areas of federal food safety activity, as identified by the committee and emphasized in a National Food Safety Initiative (Appendix C). These areas are surveillance, inspection, risk assessment, research, and education. The responses of the agencies-the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Department of Commerce-have been consolidated and appear in the table below. Copies of the committee questionnaire and each of the agency responses in full are available from the National Academy of Sciences' (NAS) public information file. Information on accessing these documents is available from the NAS website at http://www.nas.edu.
E U.S. Food Safety Budgets (FY 1995-1998) (in dollars)
|
|
CDCa |
NIHb |
EPAc |
FDAd |
NMFSe |
USDAf |
Subtotal |
|
Surveillance |
|
not reported |
not reported |
|
|
|
|
|
FY95 |
2,900,000 |
|
|
6,339,000 |
|
532,000 |
9,771,000 |
|
FY96 |
4,500,000 |
|
|
7,455,000 |
|
1,032,000 |
12,987,000 |
|
FY97 |
4,500,000 |
|
|
7,500,000 |
|
1,032,000 |
13,032,000 |
|
FY98 |
14,500,000 |
|
|
9,109,000 |
|
1,532,000 |
25,141,000 |
|
Inspection |
not reported |
not reported |
|
|
|
|
|
|
FY95 |
|
|
20,300,000 |
163,174,000 |
13,700,000 |
622,827,000 |
820,001,000 |
|
FY96 |
|
|
18,200,000 |
160,737,000 |
13,400,000 |
627,977,000 |
820,314,000 |
|
FY97 |
|
|
19,900,000 |
151,383,000 |
13,000,000 |
655,980,000 |
840,263,000 |
|
FY98 |
|
|
23,200,000 |
161,423,000 |
11,800,000 |
671,438,000 |
867,861,000 |
|
Risk Assessment |
not reported |
not reported |
|
|
|
|
|
|
FY95 |
|
|
91,100,000 |
6,339,000 |
|
5,887,000 |
103,326,000 |
|
FY96 |
|
|
107,400,000 |
7,455,000 |
|
6,885,000 |
121,740,000 |
|
FY97 |
|
|
133,100,000 |
7,500,000 |
|
8,272,000 |
148,872,000 |
|
FY98 |
|
|
126,700,000 |
9,109,000 |
|
7,598,000 |
143,407,000 |
|
Research |
not reported |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
FY95 |
|
|
13,100,000 |
22,913,000 |
|
47,812,000 |
83,825,000 |
|
FY96 |
|
|
12,200,000 |
22,266,000 |
|
47,333,000 |
81,799,000 |
|
FY97 |
|
49,799,000 |
19,000,000 |
21,977,000 |
|
53,557,000 |
144,333.000 |
|
FY98 |
|
52,873,000 |
32,000,000 |
25,632,000 |
|
60,348,000 |
170,853,000 |
