FDA Seeks $17.7m In User Fees For Mandatory Cosmetic Registration
This article was originally published in The Rose Sheet
Executive Summary
Again in its budget justification, FDA signals that a Mandatory Cosmetic Registration Program does not come cheap. Legislation would be needed to implement the program, as well as the industry user fees required to support it, but only one cosmetics safety bill currently in play includes a user-fee mechanism to fund proposed facility and product registration with the agency.
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