Marty Makary: “At the FDA there are great ideas that just have not gotten…”

“Perhaps if they didn't come to the table, some of the protectionist strategies you're talking about, could that see FTC action also? Well, first of all, At the FDA there are great ideas that just have not gotten daylight. Take for example our work on removing the nine petroleum based food diets from the US food supply. They've been talking about that for 35 years.” (27:23–27:30)

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