Risks Of Missing Reauthorization Deadline Highlighted At User-Fee Hearing

FDA center directors, including device chief Jeffrey Shuren, told lawmakers they are committed to reauthorizing user-fee programs during a March 21 Senate hearing. The officials wouldn't comment on a recent budget proposal from the Trump administration that seeks more user fees and less appropriations from Congress that industry agreed to.

FDA product-center directors wouldn't comment on whether any alternative user-fee provisions were under consideration during a March 21 Senate hearing, despite a recent budget blueprint from the Trump administration that appears to seek more user fees from companies next year than what industry agreed to in recent negotiations.

FDA Device Center Director Jeffrey Shuren testified before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee on the medical device user-fee agreement, alongside drug evaluation center director Janet Woodcock and center for biologics evaluation director Peter Marks

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