User-Fee Facts: 10 Key Medtech Details From US FDA Agreements

While Congress makes its push to reauthorize US FDA user fees by mid-summer, here are 10 important details from the underlying industry-agency user-fee agreements that medtech firms should know.

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US FDA user-fee reauthorization legislation is proceeding through Congress, most recently with a May 11 markup in the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, and lawmakers want a bill passed by July.

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