WASHINGTON—Legislation to increase FDA funding and authority made progress yesterday when the Energy and Commerce Committee's health subcommittee unanimously agreed on a compromise that would impose a $500 annual registration fee on every food facility and add a cap so no single company would be charged more than $175,000 to increase funds for the FDA's food-safety operations, and would require the food industry to make it easier for the FDA to track tainted products, reported The Wall Street Journal.
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