Sherrod Brown: “I rise in support of the Animal Drug User Fee Act. H.R. 1260... builds on a successful program for fee-funded expedited…”

“I rise in support of the Animal Drug User Fee Act. H.R. 1260... builds on a successful program for fee-funded expedited review of new human drug applications... We have done not quite as good a job on expediting the approval of generic drugs... It takes oftentimes as long as 18 months for a generic drug, something that costs consumers money by the slowness of the approval process. I think this legislation on animal drugs is almost as important as those other two in terms of what it does with pets, what it does with zoos, and especially what it does with cattle and poultry.”