FDA asks court for 55 years to com­plete a FOIA re­quest on the Pfiz­er/BioN­Tech vac­cine

A non­prof­it ded­i­cat­ed to trans­paren­cy is call­ing on the FDA to re­lease any and all doc­u­men­ta­tion re­lat­ed to the ap­proval of the Pfiz­er/BioN­Tech Covid-19 vac­cine. And while FOIA re­quests are no­to­ri­ous for tak­ing months if not years to ful­fill, this time the FDA is ask­ing for 55 years to com­plete the re­quest.

Af­ter the FDA de­nied ex­pe­dit­ing the group’s FOIA re­quest, the non­prof­it sued FDA in the US Dis­trict Court in north­ern Texas, at­tempt­ing to com­pel the agency to ex­pe­dite their re­quest, which was that FDA turn over about 329,000 pages of doc­u­ments in less than 3 months.

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