FDA’s Generic Drug Staff To Be Reduced When Workload Under Control
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Some positions added as part of a hiring surge to handle generic drug user fee program responsibilities may not be refilled once vacated, FDA says.
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