RFK Jr. pressures Big Food to remove artificial dyes in meeting with CEOs

Health and Human Services -Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. On Monday told to top food managers that he wants “the worst ingredients” from food and is willing to take action to get rid of it.

Removing artificial dyes from the food system is an urgent priority of the Trump administration, and Kennedy said that he wants to do this by the end of his time, according to a memo with the meeting sent by the Consumer Brands Association viewed by CNBC. Although Kennedy said he wanted to work with the food industry, “he also made it clear that he would take action if the industry was not proactive.

“It was a constructive conversation and we look forward to continuous involvement with the secretary and the qualified experts within HHS to support public health, to build consumer confidence and promote consumers,” said Melissa Hockstad, CEO of the Consumer Brands Association, in a statement to CNBC.

Meeting -CEOs were the CEOs of Pepsico North -America, Kraft Heinz” General mills” Tyson Foods” WK Kellogg” JM Smucker And the Consumer Brands Association, the top trade group of the industry.

“We appreciate the secretary who takes the time to sit with us and consider the meeting as a productive first step in working with the administration,” a Pepsico spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC.

Bloomberg reported details of the meeting for the first time.

Kennedy is at the helm of a $ 1.7 trillion that supervises food and tobacco products, vaccines and other medicines, scientific research, infrastructure for public health and healthcare funded by the government.

His so-called Make Make Make America Roter Roter platform claims a corrupt alliance of drug and food companies and the federal health authorities that they regulate makes Americans less healthy. He has promised to put an end to the chronic disease pidemy in children and adults, and is pronounced about making nutritious food, rather than drugs, centrally in that goal.

In January, before President Donald Trump or Kennedy took office, the Food and Drug Administration has withdrawn the permission of one type of red food paint called Red No. 3. The dye is known to cause cancer in laboratory animals, but was allowed to be used for years by food manufacturers because scientists did not believe that it was the risk of cancer in the level of the level of the level, typically consumed.

Kennedy, a notorious skeptic of Vaccin, also makes early movements that can influence the immunization policy and the further damping of the US in the US at a time that vaccination rates for children are falling. He said that he will revise the vaccination schedule in children and is reportedly preparing for the removal and replacement of members of external committees that advise the government on vaccing inspections and other important decisions about public health, among other things.