CBER, ORA Saw FY 2020 User Fee Spending Drop Even As COVID Strained US FDA’s Resources

ORA continued to spend user fee dollars despite its inability to travel for facility inspections, while CBER found little generic and biosimilar work during FY 2020.

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The pandemic forced spending adjustments in several FDA offices during FY 2020. • Source: Alamy

Some centers within the US Food and Drug Administration saw user fee spending decline compared to estimates during fiscal year 2020, in part because of the pandemic, although not in what some may consider a predictable pattern.

The Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, which became the center of attention amid COVID-19 vaccine development, conducted very little user fee-supported work for the FDA’s biosimilar and generic drug...

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