• The House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Related Agencies held an April 26 hearing with FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg regarding the Fiscal Year 2014 budget request for FDA. During this hearing, Subcommittee Ranking Member Sam Farr (D-CA) told attendees that his brother-in-law, an avid outdoorsman, was diagnosed with melanoma that ultimately proved fatal. Rep Farr expressed his concern that FDA had not acted upon any o...