Distilleries advocacy group postpones FDA sanitizer fee until end of coronavirus pandemic
(WorldNews Business)

It was an unsettling end to 2020 and start of 2021 for registered distilleries facing an $14,000 FDA fee. But the year ultimately ended on a good note: Sanitizer-making distilleries won’t be required to pony up the fee while the coronavirus pandemic is ongoing. While most of the country was yelling “Jumanji” on New Year`s Eve, distillers were scratching their heads at how to dish out the dizzying $14,000 fee the Food and Drug Administration announced just days prior and made due before the clinking of glasses at midnight. Most of these distilleries, of all sizes, faced another $14,000 fee for 2021 if they had not deregistered as sanitizing-making producers from the FDA OTC-monograph...