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Article: FDA: Let generic drug firms pay fees for oversight
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 19, 1989
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WASHINGTON The Food and Drug Administration said late Friday it
would ask Congress to let it charge generic drug companies fees to
raise the money to hire the staff it needs to better police those
companies.
"Rather than seek increased appropriations for the additional
review and surveillance personnel needed, FDA . . . will seek
authority to charge generic drug companies for review services," the
FDA said.
The fees were part of a larger plan unveiled by the FDA and its
bureaucratic parent, the Health and Human Services Department, to
tighten regulation of the generic drug industry following the
disclosure of a payoff scandal and other irregularities in the
agency's generic drugs ...