Casey Jones produces 7,500 gallons of moonshine and 5,000 gallons of bourbon every year while employing only eight people. In a year that has been hard on nearly everyone, a fee of this magnitude could be detrimental. Especially if it happens twice. Hays cannot sell a bottle after Thursday without incurring another fee assessment. The problem is that a provision in the CARES Act reclassified distilleries that make hand sanitizers as drug manufacturers, allowing the FDA to treat them as such with fee assessments. Hays provided the News Edge with an FDA document outlining the fee rates for the over-the-counter monograph drug user fee program for fiscal year 2021.