SEATTLE, Wash. — Local distilleries who stepped up during the pandemic by making sanitizer recently received bad news.
Federal officials said distilleries did not have approval to switch to making sanitizers and required them to get reclassified at the cost of $14,000.
KIRO reports the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services directed the FDA on Thursday to stop making distilleries to pay what it called an arbitrary user fee.
HHS added that many small businesses stepped up to fight COVID-19 and need to be applauded, not taxed for doing so.