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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “That's why we have 10,000 ingredients in our food and the…”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 03:22

We don't have to test them, we're not going to make the companies test them. But the FDA became captured by the food industry and they enlarge the grass standard to apply to everything. And That's why we have 10,000 ingredients in our food and the Europeans only have 400 in theirs. Because in Europe, before you add something, a chemical to a food, you got to prove that it's safe. In our country, it is rubber stamped. Everything is assumed to be so. (03:22–03:28)

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Asserts that U.S. food has 10,000 ingredients compared to 400 in Europe.

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