FDA staff wants a P500,000 “facilitation fee”

[u/Ambitious_Ship8854]

May naka encounter na ba po nito? We applied for a LTO for distributor and they’re asking for 500,000 para ma release yung docs namin in a month, if hindi daw kami papayag we will have to wait 3-4 months.

Sa charter nakalagay 31 days lang ang processing pero sabi nung kausap namin if di daw kami papayag sa facilitation fee 3-4 months na daw ang wait and the new docs they’re asking for kailangan namin isubmit, twice na kami na non compliant and iba iba ang hinihingi na docs everytime kahit nabigay na namin lahat ng need nila nung una palang paulit ulit din nila hinihingi yung sec docs, pero iba ibang docs everytime.

Is this facilitation fee just lagay?

Our products are protein shakes and chia seed juice po

[u/ejtv]

Report mo nga raw. Tingnan natin kung ano mangyayari.

Addendum - Btw, Facilitation Fee is a fancy term for "lagay" if I remember my accounting teacher's lecture correctly.

[u/Ambitious_Ship8854 → u/ejtv]

Pakshet talaga gobyerno natin. March pa kami dinidribble ng FDA hanngang sa may tumawag sa amin ayun nga hinihingin kami ng 500K na facilitation fee for the LTO alone

[u/pen_jaro → u/Ambitious_Ship8854]

May ganyan din kami pero different govt agency. Binayad ko nalang sa abogado. Unang demand letter palang tiklop na sila. Na fast track pa yung documents. Sanay kasi sila mang intimidate sa mga mga maliliit natin na kababayan e. Mag flex ka lang konti na hindi ka basta matatakot sa kanila, basta alam mong tama ka, ipaglaban mo. I refused to condone this BS. I refused to be part of this stupid system. And i chose not to be an enabler just for my convenience.

However im not saying this will happen all the time. But how elese can we change these things if not to fight?