FDA slaps craft distilleries with fees for producing hand sanitizer at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic Posted By Nina Rangel on Thu, Dec 31, 2020 at 12:03 PM click image Instagram / rangercreekwhiskey Craft distillers just can’t catch a break this year. Along with the hardships brought about by the pandemic — such as the closure of their tasting rooms — the Food and Drug Administration is now telling distilleries that produced hand sanitizer at the start of the pandemic that they'll need to pay a steep fee, the The FDA is now informing the businesses that, due to a technical detail in recent pandemic relief legislation, they now owe the government more than $14,000, according to the newspaper.