FDA requiring craft distilleries who produced hand sanitizer to pay a big fee for the privilege

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

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.

Hand sanitizer is one of those over-the-counter drugs qualifying for fee assessments by its producers – including makeshift sanitizer producers like distillers.

Now, the annual fees assessed by the Federal government are serving as the final, crushing financial woe to close out an already dismal business year for distillers.

http://sjvsun.com/covid-19/calif-distillers-helped-overcome-hand-sanitizer-shortage-now-the-fda-is-making-them-pay/

[HillGoose]

wtf y tho 😳🤔

[Damocles]

Shall we continue to give tax break after tax break to the rich, or aspire to a more noble purpose, and recognize and celebrate those poor people who rose to the occasion when we needed it most? How does the Senate vote?

F#%K THE POOR!

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

wtf y tho 😳🤔

force of habit I guess?

[brucejoel99]

Meanwhile, Amazon price gouges people by selling such supplies at huge mark-ups (e.g., $30 for a box of surgical masks that should be $7, $5 per tiny bottle of hand sanitizer) & pays zilch in federal taxes. Talk about sh*tty.

[GP270watch]

Meanwhile, Amazon price gouges people by selling such supplies at huge mark-ups (e.g., $30 for a box of surgical masks that should be $7, $5 per a tiny bottle of hand sanitizer) & pays zilch in federal taxes. Talk about sh*tty.

 I use very good dustmasks related to my hobbies. I went to look at my Amazon purchase history and all the brands of masks I bought over the years are sold out or 5 times the price.

 The government really screwed up by not ordering defense act production and resources towards N95 masks and equivalent designs.

[beaver2.0]

This seems ridiculous.  I get having some oversight and at the most even some small fees but $14,000 to help out during a national shortage?  That's crazy and I don't blame any of these establishments for getting out of the sanitizer businesses at this point.

[John Dule]

Meanwhile, Amazon price gouges people by selling such supplies at huge mark-ups (e.g., $30 for a box of surgical masks that should be $7, $5 per tiny bottle of hand sanitizer) & pays zilch in federal taxes. Talk about sh*tty.

Price gouging is good.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

https://twitter.com/jacobgrier/status/1344789578503213056?s=20

shouldn't have required this, but glad they stopped it.

[brucejoel99]

https://twitter.com/jacobgrier/status/1344789578503213056?s=20

shouldn't have required this, but glad they stopped it.

Never let it be said that justified public outcry can't do good.

[dead0man]

and not a single Target had to be looted!

[Progressive Pessimist]

https://twitter.com/jacobgrier/status/1344789578503213056?s=20

shouldn't have required this, but glad they stopped it.

Never let it be said that justified public outcry can't do good.

But "cancel culture!"

[beaver2.0]

https://twitter.com/jacobgrier/status/1344789578503213056?s=20

shouldn't have required this, but glad they stopped it.

Well it looks like 2020 gave us one good thing.

It is unfortunate that we have to rely on journalists and things going viral to stop ridiculous government policies..