About Three Months' Worth Of Carryover Device Fees Remaining, FDA's Gottlieb Says
Executive Summary
US FDA has about three months' worth of medical device carryover user-fee funds to burn if the partial federal government shutdown continues, although the agency is still finalizing its shutdown balance sheet, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb says.
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