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Who is behind U.S. Food and Drug Administration?
Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners.
Not who made decisions, or why.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
- Led by Scott Gottlieb (Commissioner) 2017–2019
On the record
Sourced links that no one presents as their own account, as recorded so far. Others may exist.
Led by
- Frank Young head of 1989 Commissioner Scholarship & press 1
- David Kessler head of 1992 Commissioner Primary record 2
- David Kessler head of 1995 Commissioner Scholarship & press 3
- Scott Gottlieb head of 2017–2019 Commissioner Scholarship & press 4
Proof 4 sources
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Drug bureau chief defends FDA on payoffs, The Christian Science Monitor, 13 Jul 1989.
Scholarship & press
FDA Commissioner Frank Young told a House subcommittee
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Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA): 2017 Reauthorization as PDUFA VI (R44864), Congressional Research Service, 8 Jun 2017.
Primary record
then FDA commissioner David Kessler worked out an arrangement that met two industry demands
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The Family That Built an Empire of Pain, The New Yorker, 23 Oct 2017.
Scholarship & press
David Kessler, who ran the F.D.A. at the time, told me that he was “not involved in the approval.”
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Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb elected to Pfizer's Board of Directors, Pharmafile, 28 Jun 2019.
Scholarship & press
who stepped down from his role as the 23 rd Commissioner of the FDA earlier this year
How this answer is built
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