- Date Of Birth: July 18, 1933
- Date Of Death: February 11, 2010
- State: Connecticut
Oxford, Ct – Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr., Former FDA Commissioner, Dies at 76
Dr. Arthur Hull Hayes, Jr. who led the US Food and Drug Administration during the Tylenol crisis of 1982 and was a nationally known professor of clinical pharmacology, died on February 11, 2010 from complications caused by a chronic illness.
In 1981, Dr. Hayes was appointed Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration by President Ronald Reagan. During his years at the agency, he directed the FDA’s response to the Tylenol tampering cases, called for a voluntary moratorium on direct-to-consumer advertising of prescription medicines and weathered criticism on the FDA’s approval of the sweetener aspartame.
Funeral: St. Thomas the Apostle
