What Else Was in the Media This Week

This end-of-week media update covers a variety of items from the appropriations process to the European E. coli outbreak:

• "Budget nausea: House to cut food safety spending" is a story by Matthew Madia dated June 3 on the OMB Watch web site

• "NTEU opposes proposed FDA budget cuts" is a story dated June 2 by Joe Davidson on The Washington Post's POST POLITICS blog site

• "AAP Statement on House Appropriations Committee acceptance of FDA amendment" is a statement from American Academy of Pediatrics president Marion Burton, MD, expressing profound disappointment with the House Appropriations Committee "for accepting an amendment ... that will severely limit the basic authority of the ... FDA over a variety of public health protections for children.

• "E. coli deaths in Europe spotlight gaps in U.S. food-safety system"

• "Appropriators honing the knives"