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When There Wasn't Enough Hand Sanitizer, Distilleries Stepped Up. Now They're Facing $14,060 FDA Fees.
reason.com ^ | 12/30/20 | Jacob Grier

Posted on 12/31/2020 6:25:34 AM PST by blueyon

Distilleries just learned that to cap off a brutal year, the FDA is charging them a fee normally reserved for drug manufacturing facilities. For many American craft distillers, 2020 was already one of their worst years ever. The COVID-19-related closure of tasting rooms and cocktail bars, loss of tourism, and inability to offer in-store sampling slashed their sales revenue and cut them off from their customers. Then this week, just as it seemed they'd made it through the worst of a terrible year, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) had one more surprise in store: The agency delivered notice to distilleries that had produced hand sanitizer in the early days of the pandemic that they now owe an unexpected fee to the government of more than $14,000.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: booze; covid19; fda; handsanitizer; health; pandemic; riseup; smackintheface
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Talk about a smack in the face
1 posted on 12/31/2020 6:25:34 AM PST by blueyon
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To: blueyon

was NOT the goal to spread their manufactured killing virus????

did they EVER collect the infectious masks and burn them?
NOT ONCE?

did the CDC release the simple mouthwash DEVASTATES
the virus?
not once?

did anyone release HCQ? or did they murder the elderly
and anyone they could connect - alone against
informed consent —to an infected ventilator?


2 posted on 12/31/2020 6:28:44 AM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: blueyon

They should wipe their asses with the fine invoice leaving a big smelly skid mark and send it back to the FDA.


3 posted on 12/31/2020 6:30:37 AM PST by ObozoMustGo2012
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To: blueyon

Gasoline or acetone works just as well. Just don’t light a cigar afterwards.


4 posted on 12/31/2020 6:30:46 AM PST by HighSierra5
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To: blueyon

The Gov, is there anyone they won’t screw?


5 posted on 12/31/2020 6:31:04 AM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Diogenesis

Many positive results from Ivermectin, also. Have many friends with improvements reported.
Why have the Medical Professionals eliminated nearly all prophylactic? A positive test result means nothing. They tell you to come to the hospital if you get worse. ARDS


6 posted on 12/31/2020 6:32:06 AM PST by griswold3 (Democratic Socialism is Slavery by Mob Rule)
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To: blueyon

No good deed goes unpunished!


7 posted on 12/31/2020 6:32:40 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (Guide me, O thou great redeemer, pilgrim through this barren land.)
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To: blueyon

The well-paid FDA bureaucrats, who have spent most of this past year PRETENDING to “work” from home while watching Jerry Springer, no doubt revel in this latest opportunity to screw private industry folks doing actual productive and needed work. I DESPISE THEM!


8 posted on 12/31/2020 6:34:32 AM PST by House Atreides
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To: blueyon

That’s what you get for trusting government.


9 posted on 12/31/2020 6:36:34 AM PST by I want the USA back (I fear my government much much much much much much much much much much more than a virus from china.)
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To: blueyon

Seems simple enough. Send the bill to Mr. Fauxi or the governor.


10 posted on 12/31/2020 6:39:26 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: House Atreides

“The well-paid FDA bureaucrats, who have spent most of this past year PRETENDING to “work” from home while watching Jerry Springer, no doubt revel in this latest opportunity to screw private industry folks doing actual productive and needed work. I DESPISE THEM!”

This is about breaking our will. The ‘Great Reset’ touted by the Globalist Claus Schwab is a new form of feudalism and the Rona’ is their vehicle. It’s not going to stop.


11 posted on 12/31/2020 6:41:59 AM PST by dljordan
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To: mylife

No


12 posted on 12/31/2020 6:43:37 AM PST by nevadapatriot
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To: blueyon

Wow!


13 posted on 12/31/2020 6:44:06 AM PST by sauropod (Cui bono? I will not comply.)
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To: blueyon

Anyone think we aren’t fighting for real soon.


14 posted on 12/31/2020 6:50:15 AM PST by Phillyred
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To: Phillyred

Yep..... it’s a comin like a outta control freight train.


15 posted on 12/31/2020 7:08:55 AM PST by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: dljordan

I agree with you. This is part of the campaign to destroy our will. It’s very much reminiscent of Atlas Shrugged


16 posted on 12/31/2020 7:31:31 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: mylife

The Gov, is there anyone they won’t screw?


let’s see: the Clinton crime family, Joe Biden crime family - am sure you can name many others


17 posted on 12/31/2020 7:40:20 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012

Exactly! Arm up and fortify the distillry, start making more whiskey than they can sell and throw away. and shoot any government agent that trespasses on the property.


18 posted on 12/31/2020 7:59:02 AM PST by Delta 21 (Get off your ass and earn it!)
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To: mylife

This is where a libertarian says, “See what I mean?”

Some bureaucrat thinks its “their job” to make sure they screw everyone.


19 posted on 12/31/2020 8:25:21 AM PST by Vermont Lt (We have entered "Insanity Week." Act accordingly.)
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To: Vermont Lt

If you’re a bureaucrat, it’s what you do....screw people.


20 posted on 12/31/2020 8:26:33 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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