Food and Drug Administration
Food and Drug Administration is named in 34 events across the Capture Cascade Timeline, from 1962 to 2026.
Activity over time
Events per year
| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-02-18 | FDA Commissioner Makary and Deputy Prasad Announce End of Two-Trial Drug Approval Standard in NEJM — Most Significant FDA Safety Change Since 1962 Food and Drug Administration · Marty Makary · Vinay Prasad · Donald Trump | confirmed | |
| 2025-12-02 | FDA Cancer Drug Chief Dr. Richard Pazdur Resigns After Three Weeks Under Political Pressure Dr. Richard Pazdur · Marty Makary · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · Food and Drug Administration · +8 | reported | |
| 2025-04-01 | HHS Lays Off 10,000 Federal Health Workers at NIH, FDA, and CDC in RFK Jr. Restructuring U.S. Department of Health and Human Services · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · National Institutes of Health (NIH) · Food and Drug Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-15 | Patrizia Cavazzoni's FDA to Pfizer Move Epitomizes Regulatory Capture Patrizia Cavazzoni · Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Robert F. Kennedy Jr. · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2025-01-06 | First U.S. H5N1 Bird Flu Death Reported in Louisiana Patient Louisiana Department of Health · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Food and Drug Administration | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-13 | McKinsey Agrees to $650 Million Criminal Settlement for Role in 'Turbocharging' Opioid Sales for Purdue Pharma McKinsey & Company · U.S. Department of Justice · Purdue Pharma · Martin Elling · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-12-06 | USDA Issues Federal Order Requiring Mandatory Raw Milk Testing for H5N1 USDA · APHIS · Food and Drug Administration · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | confirmed | |
| 2024-09-20 | FDA Commissioner Califf's Pharmaceutical Industry Revolving Door Scrutinized Robert Califf · Food and Drug Administration · Verily Life Sciences · Joe Manchin · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2024-06-13 | SCOTUS: No standing in challenge to mifepristone changes (FDA v. AHM) Supreme Court of the United States · Food and Drug Administration | confirmed | |
| 2024-03-25 | H5N1 Bird Flu First Detected in U.S. Dairy Cattle in Texas USDA · Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · Food and Drug Administration · Texas Department of Agriculture | confirmed | |
| 2023-09-01 | FTC Issues Policy Statement on Orange Book Patent Gaming: Pharmaceutical Evergreening as Unfair Competition Under Section 5 Federal Trade Commission · Andrew N. Ferguson · Food and Drug Administration · Amphastar · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2023-01-01 | Cancer Drug Shortage Crisis Enables Gray Market Profiteering - Carboplatin Price Jumps from $50 to $500 Per Vial Big Pharma · Teva Pharmaceuticals · Food and Drug Administration · Gray Market Vendors · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2022-11-18 | Elizabeth Holmes Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Theranos Fraud, Exposing Regulatory Failures Elizabeth Holmes · Edward Davila · U.S. Department of Justice · Theranos · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2022-05-18 | Biden Invokes Defense Production Act for Baby Formula After Abbott Recall Exposes Dangerous Monopoly Joe Biden · Abbott Nutrition · Food and Drug Administration · U.S. Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 2022-01-03 | Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Convicted of Defrauding Investors in $9 Billion Fraud Scheme Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · U.S. Department of Justice · Securities and Exchange Commission · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2021-10-01 | Former FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn Joins Moderna Backer Flagship Pioneering Stephen Hahn · Flagship Pioneering · Moderna · Food and Drug Administration · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2021-09-01 | Joe Rogan Announces He Treated COVID with Unproven Ivermectin, Sparking Medical Misinformation Controversy Joe Rogan · Spotify · The Joe Rogan Experience · Food and Drug Administration · +3 | confirmed | |
| 2019-06-27 | Former FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb Joins Pfizer Board After 3-Month Gap Dr. Scott Gottlieb · Food and Drug Administration · Pfizer · Senator Elizabeth Warren | confirmed | |
| 2018-10-16 | AbbVie Humira Patent Thicket Delays US Biosimilars Until 2023 Despite 2016 Patent Expiration and European Competition AbbVie · Amgen · Samsung Bioepis · Mylan · +4 | confirmed | |
| 2016-06-12 | Walgreens Terminates Theranos Partnership After 31,000 Customers Receive Voided Test Results Walgreens · Theranos · Elizabeth Holmes · Food and Drug Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2015-11-19 | Johns Hopkins Study Exposes Orphan Drug Act Gaming - Seven of Top 10 Drugs Exploiting Tax Breaks for Rare Diseases Johns Hopkins University · Food and Drug Administration · AbbVie · Roche · +5 | confirmed | |
| 2015-10-15 | Wall Street Journal Exposes Theranos Blood-Testing Fraud in Landmark Investigation John Carreyrou · Elizabeth Holmes · Theranos · Wall Street Journal · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2014-06-01 | FDA Statistician Joan Buenconsejo Joins AstraZeneca After Overseeing Company Drug Reviews Joan Buenconsejo · Food and Drug Administration · AstraZeneca · Center for Drug Evaluation and Research | confirmed | |
| 2012-09-01 | New England Compounding Center Fungal Meningitis Outbreak Kills 64, Sickens 798 - FDA and State Regulators Ignored Decade of Violations New England Compounding Center · Barry Cadden · Food and Drug Administration · Massachusetts Board of Pharmacy · +2 | confirmed | |
| 2010-12-15 | FDA Arthritis Drug Reviewer Jeffrey Siegel Joins Genentech After Approving Company Tocilizumab Jeffrey Siegel · Food and Drug Administration · Genentech · Roche · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2010-04-05 | Purdue Reformulates OxyContin as "Abuse-Deterrent" After 14 Years, Drives Users to Heroin Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Sackler Family | confirmed | |
| 2004-11-18 | FDA Whistleblower David Graham Testifies on Vioxx Cover-up Before Senate Dr. David Graham · Food and Drug Administration · Merck · U.S. Senate Finance Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 2004-09-30 | Merck Withdraws Vioxx After Concealing Heart Attack Risk, FDA Failure Causes Estimated 28,000-55,000 Deaths Merck · Food and Drug Administration · David Graham · Raymond Gilmartin | confirmed | |
| 2000-01-01 | Opioid Epidemic Death Toll Reaches 500,000 Americans Between 2000-2020 Purdue Pharma · Sackler Family · Food and Drug Administration · Drug Enforcement Administration · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1997-11-21 | FDA Modernization Act Accelerates Drug Approvals and Expands Direct-to-Consumer Advertising Under Pharma Pressure Bill Clinton · PhRMA · Food and Drug Administration · James Jeffords | confirmed | |
| 1995-12-20 | FDA Approves OxyContin with Unsubstantiated Safety Claims Food and Drug Administration · Purdue Pharma · Dr. Curtis Wright · Sackler Family | confirmed | |
| 1995-12-12 | FDA Approval of OxyContin Reveals Systemic Regulatory Capture by Purdue Pharma Curtis Wright IV · Purdue Pharma · Food and Drug Administration · Division of Anesthetic, Critical Care, and Addiction Drug Products · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1992-10-29 | FDA Prescription Drug User Fee Act Creates Financial Dependence on Pharmaceutical Industry Food and Drug Administration · PhRMA · U.S. Congress · Pharmaceutical companies | confirmed | |
| 1962-10-10 | Thalidomide Scandal Drives Kefauver-Harris Amendment Strengthening FDA Drug Safety Requirements Senator Estes Kefauver · Representative Oren Harris · President John F. Kennedy · Frances Kelsey · +2 | confirmed |
Network neighbors
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
5× shared
Purdue Pharma
5× shared
Elizabeth Holmes
4× shared
Theranos
4× shared
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
3× shared
Sackler Family
3× shared
U.S. Congress
3× shared
U.S. Department of Justice
3× shared
AbbVie
2× shared
AstraZeneca
2× shared
Bernie Sanders
2× shared
Big Pharma
2× shared
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
2× shared
Marty Makary
2× shared
Merck
2× shared
Mylan
2× shared
Pfizer
2× shared
PhRMA
2× shared
Roche
2× shared
Securities and Exchange Commission
2× shared
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
2× shared
USDA
2× shared
Vinay Prasad
2× shared
Walgreens
2× shared
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