{"id":10510,"date":"2026-02-16T23:02:44","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/kennedy-maha-challanges-ultraprocesssed-food-not-safe-fda-gras\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:02:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:02:44","slug":"kennedy-maha-challanges-ultraprocesssed-food-not-safe-fda-gras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/16\/kennedy-maha-challanges-ultraprocesssed-food-not-safe-fda-gras\/","title":{"rendered":"STAT+: Kennedy says he\u2019ll act on legal challenge to ultra-processed foods"},"content":{"rendered":"

STAT+: Kennedy says he\u2019ll act on legal challenge to ultra-processed foods
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Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the starting gun in a challenge to the food industry on Sunday, announcing on CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes\u201d that he plans to act on a plan outlined by former Food and Drug Administration chief David Kessler to overhaul ultra-processed foods<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will act on David Kessler\u2019s petition,\u201d Kennedy said on \u201c60 Minutes.\u201d<\/a> \u201cAnd the questions that he\u2019s asking are questions that FDA should\u2019ve been asking a long, long time ago.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not yet clear when Kennedy will release his formal response to the citizen petition<\/a> filed by Kessler, or what the letter will say. That leaves many of the details of his plans uncertain, including the timeline.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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STAT+: Kennedy says he\u2019ll act on legal challenge to ultra-processed foods Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the starting gun in a challenge to the food industry on Sunday, announcing on CBS\u2019 \u201c60 Minutes\u201d that he plans to act on a plan outlined by former Food and Drug Administration chief David Kessler to overhaul […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2216,2362,2146,1428,2332,2151,2144,2180,2149,2152],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-10510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-chronic-disease","category-fda","category-health","category-nutrition","category-policy","category-politics","category-public-health","category-rfk-jr","category-stat","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}