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Exhibit 127

Financial Report to Congress, Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments, FY 2024

Exhibit 127 ยท Agency financial report

Financial Report to Congress, Prescription Drug User Fee Amendments, FY 2024

PDUFA user fees are not a fee for service. User fees are pooled and may be used for the allowable activities as defined in the FD&C Act.

FDA's statutory annual financial report on the PDUFA program. Table 11 (p. 16) gives user-fee obligations of $1,377,172,919 against total PDUFA program obligations of $1,772,198,497 in FY 2024, printed as 77 percent; the user-fee share was 73 percent in FY 2020, 74 in FY 2021, 76 in FY 2022 and 75 in FY 2023. Non-user-fee appropriations obligated for the program were $395,025,578, above the statutory spending trigger of $278,545,507 (p. 16). Fees are assessed on applications and annually on approved products, and are pooled (p. 5).

Source
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Date
Fiscal year 2024 (1 October 2023 to 30 September 2024)
Quoted from
Report Overview, section C, p. 5
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.fda.gov/media/185331/download
Accessed
2026-11-09
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Note
Dividing the Table 11 dollar figures gives 77.7 percent; the report prints 77 percent. The denominator is the PDUFA human drug review program, not FDA's total budget.

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Finding MED-6.1
Primary record Industry user fees paid for 77 percent of FDA's prescription drug review program in fiscal year 2024.