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US FDA User Fees: Lay-Off Notices Planned For Early September If Congress Doesn’t Pass Bill

 
• By Derrick Gingery

The notices normally would go out on 1 August, but unspent user fee funds may be able to sustain work for a few weeks if the program expires.

Ticking clock and negotiating table
Stakeholders are waiting for legislators to return to the negotiating table and complete the FDA user fee reauthorization bill. • Source: Shutterstock

Lay-off notices for US Food and Drug Administration employees are expected to go out in about a month, rather than next week, if the impasse holding up the user fee reauthorization is not resolved.

The agency told the Pink Sheet that it has targeted early September to notify employees of the potential consequences of...

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