On Eve Of User Fee Reform, Some Minnesota Firms Signal Skepticism

A survey of Minnesota device executives released last week closely aligns with previous industry polls, but the timing is notable: it comes just as Congress is completing passage of a user fee reauthorization bill championed by national device groups.

Washington device lobbyists are championing the impending enactment of FDA user fee reauthorization as a major win in the effort to improve FDA’s pre-market review process, but some Minnesota-based firms signaled last week that they are decidedly less sure of that.

Results of a survey of 59 Minnesota medical technology CEOs and venture capitalists released by an industry alliance June 19 indicate that many executives in the state, where...

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