 The requested budget authority was an increase of $50.7 million more than the FY 2008 funding – about a three percent increase.In June 2008, Congress gave the agency an emergency appropriation of $150 million for FY 2008 and another $150 million.Most federal laws concerning the FDA are part of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, (first passed in 1938 and extensively amended since) and are codified in Title 21, Chapter 9 of the United States Code.