FDA To Distillers: Thanks For Stepping Up On Hand Sanitizer — Now Here’s Our Billhttps://hotair.com/archives/ed-morrissey/2020/12/31/fda-distillers-thanks-stepping-hand-sanitizer-now-heres-bill/No good deed goes unpunished. That’s especially true when an entire industry rallies in a time of great national need to produce life-saving products such as hand sanitizer to fill massive shortages. For their patriotic and heroic efforts, the FDA has given American distillers … a $14,000 bill, reported the San Joaquin Valley Sun’s Alex Tavlian. But the true villain behind this may not be the bureaucrats:
As major producers of hand sanitizer faced a shrinking workforce and sky-high demand in the spring, one unlikely group of businesses – craft distillers – stepped up to increase the supply for panicked consumers.
Now, the Federal government is expecting distillers who rose to the occasion to alleviate the shortage pay the piper.
Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration unveiled a new set of fees for organizations operating as “monograph drug facilities†producing over-the-counter drugs.
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Where did the FDA get the authority to impose these fees in the first place? Ironically, Congress granted it — in the CARES Act, the first comprehensive emergency-relief bill of the pandemic:
Among the many Trump Administration anti-Covid measures to which the MSM gave little or no coverage was arranging for breweries and distilleries to produce hand sanitizer to address vastly increased demand. And now they're going to get @#$%ed over for their flexibility.
