It also wants to issue monetary penalties to companies that don’t comply. Adjusting expiration dates to avoid shortages: The FDA wants to require drug manufacturers to submit data on the longest shelf-life possible for drugs in the event of a shortage. The agency also wants to require some testing for the foods and be able to remotely access testing records in fiscal 2024. Establishing contaminant levels in baby food and requiring more testing: The FDA aims to bolster its food safety program with a focus on protecting infants and young children by establishing limits of contaminants in foods. Below are some priorities that caught your host’s attention: The White House budget request includes plans to strengthen the FDA’s regulatory authority. The agency’s funding comes from Congress-allocated tax dollars and industry user fees. | Mario Tama/Getty ImagesįDA ELABORATES ON BIDEN’S 2024 BUDGET - On Monday, the FDA made public its justification for President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2024 budget proposal, which would boost the agency’s funding to $7.2 billion - $521 million more than fiscal 2023 levels. ![]() "Matthew Banks was one of the people trusted to look after and care for Leo, but instead his actions caused injuries that Leo was sadly unable to recover from.In President Joe Biden's budget proposal: funds to bolster the FDA's food safety program with a focus on products for infants and young children. He never meant to hurt Leo and understands he will not be forgiven."ĭetective Constable Owen Watkins, of Sussex Police, said: "This is a heart-breaking case that has resulted in the tragic and untimely death of an innocent two-year-old boy. She added that he was remorseful and wished to say to his previous partner and family that "he has betrayed them and he will never forgive himself. Rebecca Upton, defending Banks, said: "He was described as being a loving and caring father and a very supportive partner and who was providing, along with Miss Hawdon, a good home to Leo." "I will never forgive Matthew for what he has done to Leo." She added: "I will never get over losing my child, no mother should go through what I have gone through. In a victim impact statement read to court, Ms Hawdon said that until Banks admitted causing the fatal injury she had lived under the suspicion that she had harmed Leo which made her "feel sick to the stomach". She added that he said that "it was an accident and he did it out of frustration and tiredness". She said that Banks had said that "he may have shaken Leo while winding him, he was crying so much that he wasn't breathing properly, and he had shaken him to shock him into breathing". Ms Knight said that about four weeks after the fatal incident, Banks admitted to Ms Hawdon that he had shaken the baby before making further admissions to other relatives and a social worker. Leo was stabilised and later released from hospital into the care of his family while continuing to receive specialist treatment for the head injury and related serious illness until his death in February 2020. ![]() Ms Knight said: "The constellation of injuries could only be explained by a traumatic episode that occurred at the time of his collapse." ![]() He was taken to hospital where tests and a MRI scan found he had suffered a "large volume subdural haemorrhage and a brain laceration". She said that when Leo's mother, Hannah Hawdon, woke up in the morning at their home in Chichester, she found her son seriously ill.
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