14. Department of Health and Human Services · Minor
Make abortion pill manufacturer inspections transparent
Printed page 459 14. Department of Health and Human Services
“Implement a policy of transparency about inspections of the abortion pill’s sponsors, Danco and GenBioPro, as well as facilities that manufacture the pills. The FDA should respond to congressional requests and Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests about inspections, compliance, and post-marketing safety in a timely manner.”
What has happened
- Not started
No transparency policy on inspections of Danco Laboratories or GenBioPro has been adopted. FDA publishes inspection classifications in its existing databases but has issued no policy in the window on responding to congressional or FOIA requests about abortion pill sponsors, and no Federal Register document in the window names either sponsor.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- The Mifepristone Shared System REMS was read directly at REMS@FDA. accessdata.fda.gov opened for us even though fda.gov and the rest of HHS’s sites did not, which is how this cluster was settled without a web search.
- The REMS update history shows exactly five modifications since 2019 and one inside the window (2025-09-30, “Modified to add ANDA 216616”).
- Read 2026-09-06. fda.gov now opens; the earlier failures came from how the pages were requested and from a retired path (the inspection search at accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/inspsearch/ is gone). The warning-letters database (fda.gov/inspections-compliance-enforcement-and-criminal-investigations/compliance-actions-and-activities/warning-letters, 3,677 letters, 2021–2026) returns no letter to Danco or to GenBioPro. The inspection classification database now lives at datadashboard.fda.gov/oii/cd/inspections.htm, a dashboard whose data can be queried only with a registered key; its in-page search did not filter on either name in this read, and its dataset is a download. None of that bears on the Status: the Quote asks for a policy of transparency about these sponsors’ inspections, and no such policy has been issued — a database entry, present or absent, is not one. It stays not started; the dataset download is the only open route we found to the inspection record itself.
- Action
- issue
- Object
- transparency policy on abortion pill sponsor inspections
- ID
- 1237