Posted on 10/01/2010 2:42:46 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
American Bio Medica, one of Columbia County’s largest manufacturers, is fighting the federal government’s attempt to expand its regulation of the company’s products. The company makes drug testing kits for workplaces and government agencies. The FDA wants to begin regulating saliva drug testing kits, which make up about 20 percent of American Bio Medica’s product line.
Chris Gibson, the Republican candidate for the 20th Congressional District seat, touring the plant on Smith Street Thursday, told the company’s assembled workforce this was “capricious legislation.”
“Twenty percent of your company’s business is at risk,” he said. The saliva tests make up about $2 million of Bio Medica’s $10 million annual revenue.
Gibson accused his opponent, U.S. Rep. Scott Murphy, of being unresponsive to the needs of companies like this.
CEO Stan Cipkowski said, “We got no help from the legislators. All we see is runaway regulation. We need change.”
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Sounds like a great issue. What would the feds do, force production overseas?
Either that or, I suspect, to companies favored and controlled by Dems.
They found a way to tax the spit out of you.
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