House Appropriations Committee Chair and Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chair Rosa DeLauro (D-CT-03) delivered the following remarks at the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Adminstration, and Related Agencies Subcommittee's Fiscal Year 2023 Budget Request for the Food and Drug Administration Hearing:
Thank you, Chairman Bishop and Acting Ranking Member Harris for holding this important hearing and I want to say thank you to you Commissioner Califf for testifying this morning.
We are dealing with an infant formula emergency in this nation – a crisis of both safety and supply. I sounded the alarm on this crisis and have been working on this issue since news of the recall broke in February. I am glad that you are testifying before us today because we need to get to the bottom of the disgraceful lack of oversight and the terrible safety issues from an Abbott Nutrition manufacturing plamt that led to at least two babies dying and several others being hospitalized after consuming Abbott’s infant formula.
We need to also get to the bottom of the FDA’s slow response, which contributed to products staying on the shelves and in the homes of families the country over, potentially putting babies at risk and forcing parents to play a game of Russian roulette that they did not know they were playing.
I want to say a thank you to Chairman Bishop, for holding this hearing and for your longtime leadership on this subcommittee. In...
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