Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the candidate of the American president Donald Trump to the secretary of health and social services testified to this during his confirmation audience of the Senate finance committee at the building of the Dirksen Senate of the Senate on January 29, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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The Secretary of Health and Social Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., told senior food leaders on Monday that he wanted “the worst ingredients” out of food and was ready to take action to get rid of it.
The abolition of artificial dyes of the food system is an urgent priority of the Trump administration, and Kennedy said he wanted to do so by the end of his mandate, according to a memo summarizing the meeting sent by the Consumer Brands Association which was consulted by CNBC. While Kennedy said he wanted to work with the food industry, he also “clearly indicated” that he would act if the industry was not proactive.
“It was a constructive conversation and we are delighted with the continuous commitment to the secretary and qualified experts within the HHS to support public health, strengthen consumer confidence and promote the choice of consumers,” said Melissa Hockstad, CEO of Consumer Brands Association, in a press release at CNBC.
The participants in the meeting included the CEOs of Pepsico North America, Kraft Heinz,, General Mills,, Tyson Foods,, WK Kellogg,, JM SMUCKER And the Consumer Brands Association, the best commercial group in industry.
“We appreciate that the secretary takes the time to sit down with us and to consider the meeting as a first productive step to work with the administration,” said a spokesperson for Pepsico in a press release at CNBC.
Bloomberg first reported the details of the meeting.
Froot Loops Cereal, sold in Canada and made with natural colors, on the left and Froot cereals, sold in the United States and made with artificial colors, arranged in the Brooklyn district of New York, in the United States, Wednesday, May 22, 2024.
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Kennedy is the head of an agency of $ 1.7 billion of dollars that oversees food products and tobacco, vaccines and other drugs, scientific research, public health infrastructure and the government funded by the government.
Its so -called Make Make Healthy Again platform supports a corrupt alliance of drug and food companies and the federal health agencies that regulate them make Americans less healthy. He undertook to put an end to the epidemic of chronic diseases in children and adults, and expressed the manufacture of nutritious foods, rather than drugs, at the heart of this objective.
In January, before President Donald Trump or Kennedy took up his duties, the Food and Drug Administration revoked his authorization of a type of red dietary dye called red n ° 3. The coloring is known to cause cancer in laboratory animals, but it was authorized to be used by manufacturers of food products for years because scientists did not think they have increased the level of the level consumes.
Kennedy, a notorious vaccine skeptic, also makes early movements that may have an impact on immunization policy and further reduces absorption in the United States at a time when infant vaccination rates are decreasing. He said he would examine the childhood vaccination calendar and prepare to withdraw and replace members of external committees who advise the government on vaccine approvals and other key public health decisions, among other efforts.