Since FY 2015, Congress has continuously raised the issue of inadequate border screening of food. Particularly, Congress has been concerned with designing an import control strategy that incorporates a comprehensive system of safeguard reviews, rather than solely relying on individual FDA reviews at the port of entry. With its proposed fiscal year (FY) budget for 2017, FDA requested an $182,464,000 overall user fee budget for Foods and Cosmetics. This is a significant increase over the enacted budget for 2016, in which FDA requested $11,586,000. The overall breakdown for the increase in user fees for Foods/Cosmetics from 2016 – 2017 is as follows: