Word: panels
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...shaping up to be a bad couple of weeks for the tobacco lobby. First, a Senate panel approved a 61-cent hike in federal taxes on all packs of smokes, and next week a second committee is expected take up legislation to have tobacco regulated by the Food and Drug Administration...
...Kennedy's measure is opposed by most Republicans (it has 52 co-sponsors, including 12 Republicans) on the grounds that it would essentially force the FDA to grant approval of something that is clearly bad for people, said Senator Michael Enzi of Wyoming, the panel's top Republican. "We know that there is no such thing as a safe cigarette," Enzi said in a release. "Proposals to have FDA regulate tobacco are a misguided attempt to force a deadly product into the regulatory structure developed for drugs and devices - products which do have health benefits." Enzi Thursday introduced...
...over a timeline to withdraw troops from Iraq. Bleary-eyed, the Senate Finance Committee still managed to pass their legislation 17-4 with most Republicans voting in defiance of President George W. Bush's veto threat against the measure. It "is good policy," Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa, the panel's top Republican, said in endorsing the package...
...example, four reviewers are overwhelmed to the point that they can typically devote only 30 seconds or less to each individual shipment. With the FDA allowing imports to come in at over 300 ports of entry, it would be impossible to have staff at each facility, said the panel, leaving great potential for shady importers to take advantage. "They know what ports to go into, they know where the FDA does not have an inspector or a lab, and they know what private labs they can go to for testing," said Kevin Barstow, investigative counsel for the committee...
...Eschanbach followed up his committee appearance with a visit to the White House Wednesday where President Bush announced the creation of an import safety panel, headed up by Secretary of Health and Human Services Michael Leavitt.The group will report back in 60 days with an updated food safety plan focused on both the countries and companies that import food into...