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'Marketplace' Report: $275M for FDA?

Worried about your tomatoes? Your spinach? The Bush administration is asking Congress to give the Food and Drug Administration an additional $275 million in next year's budget to improve the safety of the nation's food supply. With the added money the FDA would open offices in China, India and Central America to provide more inspections of food and medical products.

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