The Food and Drug Administration has a backlog of 800 generic drugs awaiting approval, the Washington Post reported.
Approvals are now taking about 20 1/2 months, up from just under 20 months in 1999, and 450 drugs were approved last year, 23 fewer than the previous year.
Gary Buehler, director of the Office of Generic Drugs, said he expects the backlog to get even bigger because there are likely to be a record number of applications for approval this year. He said there were 129 applications in December, a monthly record.
I wonder what the drug lobby has to do with this...We all end up paying the price for overpriced pharmaceuticals.
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