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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “The agency became captured by the food industry.”

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

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RFK on food allergy research

Published | Video Starts at 03:11

So they developed that category. And if it is an ingredient that's been around for a long time, we're not going to force you to do the studies. That category is. The agency became captured by the food industry. That category was hijacked by the food industry. So that. And every new ingredient that was developed by any food company was automatically generally recognized as safe. (03:11–03:16)

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Asserts that the FDA was influenced by the food industry.

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