Daily Mail News – Health
By CASSIDY MORRISON SENIOR HEALTH REPORTER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 12:37 EST, 3 November 2023 | UPDATED: 13:49 EST, 3 November 2023
An investigation has raised concerns about the ‘cozy relationship’ between the Food and Drug Association (FDA) and Moderna during the Covid pandemic.
The report published in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) found two top FDA officials in charge of approving Covid vaccines left to join the pharma giant and received six-figure salaries just months after the shots got the green light.
The BMJ investigation by Dr Peter Doshi, University of Maryland pharmacy professor, warned about the lack of safeguards to prevent the ‘revolving door culture’ that can create ‘at least the appearance of conflicts of interest’.
Technically FDA employees are supposed to wait one year before lobbying or having ‘any communication to or appearance before any officer or employee of their former agency on behalf of anyone seeking official action.’