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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “That loophole [grass exemption] was hijacked by the…”

Featuring: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Independent | United States Secretary of Health and Human Services | National

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… verify the safety of their ingredients with no government oversight if they are generally recognized by experts as safe. Pending White House approval, he intends to close that back door. That loophole [grass exemption] was hijacked by the industry, and it was used to add things, thousands upon thousands of new ingredients into our food supply. in Europe. There's only 400 legal ingredients. This agency does not know how many ingredients there are in American food. We do not know. They do not know. (04:18–04:31)

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Asserts that the grass exemption loophole was used to add thousands of new ingredients into the food supply.

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