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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: “We have 10,000 ingredients in our food that are illegal in…”

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 03:50

And the government doesn't have the money to do those tasks. And so it just opened this loophole that now We have 10,000 ingredients in our food that are illegal in Europe. And Europeans have 400 ingredients. We have over 10,000. So we're doing this, closing that loophole, which we have to do with regulation. So that takes about six months, but we've already started that process. (03:50–03:54)

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