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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The fees are seen as means of corruption. RFKJr speaks out about that,  not a favored agency.[/quote]

Not sure what you want anyone to do about it.  The whole reason the fees exist is because Congress wouldn't fund FDA adequately before. Innovation and treatments for sick people were stuck in regulatory limbo for years because they simply didn't have money for staff.  They also had to keep submitting massive submissions via paper because FDA simply don't have money to upgrade its IT infrastructure.

Sure, RFK can kill the fees, but unless he finds billions of dollars in funding, he will learn same the history lesson we already had as before.  I'd actually agree with getting rid of fees, but congress will always play political games with it and it'll never be stable so we will be right back to square one. It'll also be only a matter of time until screaming angry mommy bloggers who have kids with terrible disease are pissed off at why there are treatments stuck at FDA that aren't being reviewed.  Oops sorry, they just don't have the staff because Congress didn't provide funding.

The FDA got over 1 million submissions for vaping products alone.  That's not even counting any drugs, devices, generics, food, veterinary medicines, etc.  That's just to give you a sense of the mammoth volume it deal with.  They can cut their finding mechanisms at their own peril. Without replacement, huge sectors of the economy will get slammed.  FDA has to oversee 20% of the entire US GDP.

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