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# House Republicans Want GAO Lab Safety Review
- URL: https://www.fdaweb.com/house-republicans-want-gao-lab-safety-review/
- Published: 2024-11-12T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-14T14:46:46.000Z
- Author: David McFarland
- Tags: Drugs, Devices, #legacy-id-D5158167

The Republican leadership of the House Energy and Commerce Committee is asking the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to “examine the structure of laboratory safety programs” at FDA, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), and the National Institutes of Health. An 11/12 committee [statement](https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/e-and-c-republicans-ask-gao-to-assess-structure-of-cdc-fda-and-nih-lab-safety-offices?ref=fdaweb.com) (includes a link to a letter to GAO) says, “The committee remains concerned about the effectiveness of the oversight HHS and its agencies provide to the laboratories they own and operate. In addition to numerous GAO recommendations that remain unimplemented by FDA, both FDA and CDC announced organizational reforms to their laboratory safety and security functions, and it is not clear whether these changes will strengthen oversight or create new undue risk.”

The letter says an FDA reorganization that brought several laboratories within the Office of the Chief Scientist “raises potential independence concerns, as FDA’s laboratory safety and security functions report to the same office.”