FDA Stayed Silent As Internal Reports About Potential Tylenol Risks Piled Up

Daily Caller ^ | 10/21/25 | Emily Kopp

[CFW]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) defied the advice of its own drug safety experts to warn pregnant women about Tylenol for nearly a decade, internal reports and presentations obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation reveal.

FDA rank-and-file scientists repeatedly recommended the agency release information about Tylenol in pregnancy across three scientific reviews conducted in 2016, 2019, 2022 and two memos, one from the FDA’s maternal health division in 2016 and one from the FDA’s urological health division in 2017.

The scientific literature posits many plausible drivers of autism, the most well-established of which are genetic, and the FDA drug safety experts acknowledged that the research linking the condition to Tylenol is far from ironclad.

Still, as alarm bells rang within FDA headquarters and the boardrooms of Tylenol’s manufacturers, pregnant women heard nothing from either the government or the manufacturers about the potential risks until the September announcement by President Donald Trump and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

FDA leadership declined to update its webpage about over-the-counter painkillers in pregnancy, repeatedly falling back on language first issued in January 2015. But that statement simply acknowledged that “FDA is aware of concerns” about Tylenol and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), citing just one scientific paper.

At the urging of Trump and Kennedy, FDA finally released a nuanced statement in September cautioning pregnant women about Tylenol while acknowledging that aspirin, ibuprofen and high fevers all pose their own risks. That move was first recommended by an FDA drug safety expert nine years earlier.

[CFW]

The media acts as if RFKjr and President Trump just one day came up with this crazy new idea that Tylenol could cause harm to an unborn child and no one had ever suggested it before.

[packagingguy]

Not only does Tylenol not work well but it monkeys with the endocannabinoid system. It WAS in the scientific literature.

[PGalt]

Plausible deniability

[zeestephen]

Here come the Lawyers.

Here come the billion dollar Law Suits.

I saw a woman take a Tylenol in the Library once.

Do I qualify?

[HYPOCRACY]

It’s in almost every friggen OTC drug. They just want you to destroy your liver. Give your kid some tylenol and some cough syrup and they’ve gotten 900% of the daily dose for an adult.

[FormerFRLurker]

Why stop at pregnant women? Is Tylenol actually good for anyone?

[lewislynn]

Apparently they were relying on Whoopi and the other never-Trump Tylenol experts on The View.

[lewislynn]

Is Tylenol actually good for anyone?

There was a time, not that long ago, when Tylenol was considered safe and recommended over Aspirin.

[Seaplaner]

FDA Stayed Silent ...

Is the FDA similarly silent about mRNA "vaccine" poisons?

[packrat35]

Tylenol has always had a large risk of destroying your liver if you take too much or drink alcohol when taking.

This has been known for DECADES...