ASTA Letter to 2012 House Agriculture Appropriations
ASTA issued comments to the U.S. House of Representatives in November 2011 requesting that the House accept the Senate's higher amount of FY12 funding for the Food and Drug Administration in the FY 2012 Agriculture Appropriations budget.
11/03/2011 at 5:15 am
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