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FDA faces legal challenge over COVID-19 approval data, report says

December 14, 2021

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A nonprofit group will get its day in court Tuesday when it argues that the Food and Drug Administration should release all documents tied to the approval of the Pfizer/BioNtech’s COVID-19 vaccine, which the plaintiffs claim could take decades to produce, a report said.

Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency sued the FDA under a Freedom of Information Act and seeks more than 400,000 additional pages about the approval process, Reuters reported. The FDA has offered to release 12,000 pages by the end of January, and “a minimum” of 500 pages a month going forward, which the group said could mean that it may be 2097 before all documents are made public, the report said.

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