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by SayMyName 741 days ago
As of their latest reporting I could find on the fda site, 3.3B out of their 7.2B budget comes from "user fees", so the more drugs are sold, the more they get back in user fees.
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Pretty sure user fees are tied to new drug applications, not to sales. As in FDA validating your trial results is obscenely expensive and they make the companies who consume those services pay for them.
This is correct. It isn't validation or technical series. It is purely review.