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BIG BEVERAGE GOES TO WAR WITH MAHA

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

While nearly 30 states are moving toward banning dangerous dyes in food, the American Beverage Association is fighting back in the same playbook as big pharma lobbyists to bully government officials.

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0:00.0

Just a couple weeks ago, Kennedy sat down with the heads of the largest food makers.

0:04.8

And this was in Politico, the headline that was, this is a closed door meeting, by the way.

0:09.0

Kennedy gives food company CEOs an ultimatum.

0:11.4

The ultimatum was basically clean up your food or government's going to do it for you.

0:14.9

And just a couple hours after that meeting, you saw this headline get posted.

0:18.9

This is his movements through the FDA, and that would be Macri at that point.

0:22.4

RFK Jr. seeks to eliminate FDA's grass, has generally recognized a safe loophole to improve

0:27.7

food ingredient safety.

0:29.2

So right now, just a quick sign.

0:31.1

There's a process called self-affirmation.

0:33.2

So if you're a big major food company, you can conduct your own safety evaluation without

0:39.0

FDA, without notifying FDA.

0:41.6

You can just do it.

0:42.2

You only have to tell them that you're doing this.

0:44.6

And that assessment can be, there's no requirement in FDA that has to be reported, that

0:50.3

this assessment is happening.

0:51.7

And this enters the food supply because it's generally recognized as safe. So this is going to be the low-hanging fruit here that is most likely going to be

0:59.1

closed. They're going to take away the self-affirmation pathway. So they have to go through proper channels

1:04.3

for proper science, put that to the FDA, and the FDA may even have, I mean, one of the conversations

1:10.5

that they may even have an independent body come in using the FDA and the FDA may even have, I mean, one of the conversations that they may

1:10.9

even have an independent body come in using the FDA to look at these things. So there's not this

1:15.8

complex of interest with big food. So that's a positive thing. But at the state level, again,

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