Exhibit (2021-09-16)

What This Document Is

This is Exhibit A.2 to the complaint (Doc. 1), an FDA online-portal auto-generated confirmation of PHMPT's FOIA submission.

Factual Summary

This two-page exhibit is a system-generated confirmation from the FDA's electronic FOIA request portal, acknowledging receipt of PHMPT's request. The extracted text of page 2 is heavily OCR-degraded — the source PDF's second page appears to render as a web-form confirmation screen (field labels, a submitted-request summary, and boilerplate about FOIA processing and fee schedules) in a font or encoding that the text extraction largely garbled into non-readable character strings. Legible fragments include the requester's name ("Public Health and Medical Professionals for Transparency"), an address block, and boilerplate FOIA-fee and processing-time language consistent with an automated portal receipt rather than a substantive agency response. No named FDA official, control number, or firm commitment on processing timeline is legibly recoverable from this exhibit; the FOIA control number (2021-5683) and named contact (Sarah Kotler) appear instead in the subsequent written acknowledgment, Exhibit A.3 (Doc. 1-3).

Key Facts

• Filed September 16, 2021 as Complaint Exhibit A.2, immediately following the August 27, 2021 request letter (Exhibit A.1).
• Two pages; page 2's OCR text is substantially garbled (character-substitution artifacts consistent with an embedded web-form font), limiting what can be confirmed from the extracted text alone.
• Functions as documentary proof that PHMPT's FOIA request was received and logged by the FDA's online system.

Source Caveats

• Page 2 of this exhibit's extracted text is substantially OCR-garbled (embedded web-form rendering); only fragmentary legible content could be confirmed. No content has been inferred beyond what is legible in the source or corroborated by the sibling exhibits (A.1, A.3, A.4) in this same filing.