US FDA Budget Boost Would Increase Domestic Drug Manufacturing By Better Regulating New Technologies

FDA’s fiscal year 2020 budget request calls for spending on figuring out how to regulate new drug manufacturing technologies under the rubric of increasing US domestic manufacturing.

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A theme of promoting domestic manufacturing that debuted in the US FDA’s fiscal year 2019 budget request has reappeared in the request for FY 2020, which seeks yet more money and agency staff positions under the rubric of helping to convince global pharmaceutical manufacturers to put down more roots in the US.

Meanwhile, previously initiated efforts to help advance US drug manufacturing excellence would continue under the Trump administration’s proposal. For example,...

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