President Obama's 2016 fiscal year budget proposal seeks a nine percent increase over FDA's FY 2015 funding levels—to be used for continued implementation of food safety legislation, to improve medical product quality and safety, and to further fund needed staffing increases and overhead. An FDA fact sheet highlights how funds would be allocated within FDA by product category. In its Justification of Estimates, FDA reports that the proposed budget is structured around FDA's strategic plan framework and would be divided among four major activities: food safety, medical product safety, medical countermeasures, and "other activities" that would include consolidating FDA's facilities, tobacco control, and color certification.
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