PDUFA Stars Aligning As House Draft Gives FDA Direct Authority Over Importers
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Latest version of potential House user fee bill eliminates revisions to FDA’s mission statement and includes provisions for approving breakthrough technologies and destroying unsafe drug imports at the border.
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