Robert f. Kennedy Junior, candidate for US President Donald Trump’s Health and Human Services Secretary, during his Senate Finance Committee on 29 January 2025, Washington, Washington, Dirkson at Washington, DC in DC in DC, testifies during the hearing of his Senate Finance Committee at Senate Office Building.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior on Monday told the top food officials that he wanted the “worst material” out of the meal and is ready to take action to get rid of them.
Removing artificial colors from the food system is an immediate priority of the Trump administration, and Kennedy said that he wants to do so by the end of his time in the office, according to a memo, which briefly presents the meeting sent by the Consumer Brands Association seen by CNBC. While Kennedy said that he wanted to work with the food industry, he also “clear” that if the industry was not active, he would take action.
“It was a creative conversation and we are ready to continuously associate with the secretary and qualified experts within HHS to support public health, build consumer trusts and promote consumer choice,” Melissa Hawkstad said in a statement to CNBC, CEO of Consumer Brands Association, CNBC said in a statement.
The CEOs of those participating in the meeting were involved PepsiCo North America, Craft Hanz, General mills, Tyson foods, WK Kelog, JM Smocker And Consumer Brand Association, Top Business Group of Industry.
“We appreciate the secretary to see the secretary to sit with us and see the meeting as a producer first step to work with the administration,” a spokesman from PepsiCo said in a statement.
Bloomberg gave a description of the meeting for the first time.
Fruit loops grains, sold in Canada and made with natural colors, left, and fruit loops grains, sold in the US and made with artificial colors, arranged on Wednesday, 22 May, 2024 in Brooklyn Boro of New York, US.
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Kennedy is at the top of a $ 1.7 trillion agency that oversees food and tobacco products, vaccines and other drugs, scientific research, public health infrastructure and government -funded health care by the government.
Her so -called Make America Healthy Again platform argued a corrupt alliance of drugs and food companies and federal health agencies regulating federal health agencies are making Americans less healthy. They have promised to eliminate the epidemic of chronic disease in children and adults, and have been vocal about making nutritious food rather than drugs, central for that goal.
In January, before taking over by President Donald Trump or Kennedy, Food and Drug Administration canceled its authority of a type of red food dye, called Red No. 3. The dye is known to cause cancer in laboratory animals, but was allowed by food manufacturers to use over years because scientists did not believe that it usually takes the risk of cancer in humans, it usually consumes.
Kennedy, a notorious vaccine skeptical, is also taking initial steps that can affect the vaccination policy and move forward in the US when the childhood vaccination rate is falling. He has said that he will review the childhood vaccination schedule, and is allegedly preparing to remove and replace members of external committees who advise the government with vaccine approval and other efforts on other major public health decisions.
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