Stephen Hahn (AP Images)

Hahn tes­ti­fies on Covid-19 re­sponse, says FDA on tar­get to hit user fee goals

FDA com­mis­sion­er Stephen Hahn on Tues­day tes­ti­fied be­fore the House En­er­gy and Com­merce Com­mit­tee on his agency’s re­sponse to the coro­n­avirus dis­ease (Covid-19) pan­dem­ic.

User fee goals, pol­i­cy re­view

De­spite an “in­cred­i­ble surge in vol­ume” of ap­pli­ca­tions and con­straints on the agency’s abil­i­ty to con­duct in­spec­tions, Hahn said that the FDA “has main­tained the same pace of meet­ing its goals on ap­pli­ca­tions for med­ical prod­ucts for the last six months that is has main­tained in re­cent years.”

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