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US FDA Collects ‘Majority’ Of PDUFA Program Fees After Payment Plea

 
• By Derrick Gingery

The revenue is expected to sustain the prescription drug user fee program moving forward after reserves were tapped at the start of fiscal year 2023.

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The FDA still used some user fee reserves to fund PDUFA operations even though many sponsors paid program fees on time. • Source: Shutterstock

US Food and Drug Administration officials avoided the prescription drug user fee financial crisis that threatened following its late September renewal.

After pleading with sponsors to pay their PDUFA program fees as soon as possible, the FDA said 10 November that...

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