FDA Again Proposes To Advance Outsourcing Sector With Center Of Excellence

The US FDA’s FY 2020 budget request calls for funding to help advance the emerging drug compounding outsourcing sector, as did the FY 2019 request. The money would bring more training, specially tailored GMP requirements and a center of excellence.

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An effort to use fiscal year 2019 federal funds to help establish a US outsourcing facility sector would continue next year under the Trump administration’s FY 2020 budget proposal, according to congressional budget justification documents.

The request includes $12m to “advance a new domestic drug industry and promote access by establishing the outsourcing facility sector...

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