Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Junior, in a speech on Friday to Food and Drug Administration employees, their previous decisions, at one time, saying that the agency had become a “sock doll” for industries that were supposed to be organized.
NBC News received a Kennedy address, which is his first shared appearance with New Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Marti Makari. The event was supposed to welcome men and highlight the agency’s priorities to move forward.
These priorities include defining the causes of autism and FDA’s “GRAS” path, which allows food companies to add ingredients without prior approval.
Kennedy claimed that the FDA proximity to the food industry has failed to address food pollution.
“Like every agency,” said, the FDA, “at some point, it really became a sock doll for the industry that was supposed to be organized.”
Kennedy has long claimed that federal health agencies are very close to the industries they organize. It is not an unfamiliar criticism of FDA-in 2021, for example, Senator Bernie Sanders, I-VT. , He denounced the choice of President Joe Biden in the Food and Drug AdministrationQuoting close relationships with the pharmaceutical industry. Some also A problem has been taken with the fact that the FDA products reviewLike medications, they are funded by the user fees from the industry.
However, Kennedy suggested that comfortable comfortable relations with vaccine makers have overseeing vaccines. in 2015 interview with children’s health defenseHe founded the Kennedy -Qudhan Control Group, and described the centers of diseases control and prevention of them, “a subsidiary of the pharmaceutical industry”. He also claimed that “all institutions that are supposed to stand between a mysterious industry and the weak children have been at risk.”
Immediately before the last elections, Kennedy Books on x: “If you are working in the FDA (FDA) and you are part of this corrupt system, I have two letters to you: 1. Keep your records, and 2. Pack your bags.”
On Friday, Kennedy told the FDA employees that “the deep state is real.”
“President Trump always talks about the deep state, the media disappears and says it is madness or conspiracy theorist,” Kennedy said. “But the deep state is real, not George Soros or Bill Gates, and a group of pioneering individuals sitting together in a room and planning to destroy humanity. It’s more treacherous. It’s institutional pressure.”
“Unfortunately, the speech is likely to continue throughout his term because he believes that we are all sales for the industry,” said Kennedy’s speech, who watched Kennedy, said, “Indeed, many industries do not hate the safety level that we are working on. “
last The employee said that at least one person left the room when Kennedy mentioned the “deep state”.
Both employees were granted not to disclose their identity because they were not allowed to speak to the media.
The speech came less than two weeks after the administration’s decision to get rid of about 3,500 employees in the FDA (FDA) in addition to thousands of workers in other health agencies. Workers’ layoffs included many vaccine organizations in the Food and Drug Administration.
Kennedy did not treat workers’ demobilization.
During the speech, the agency’s employees encouraged speaking against their managers.
“If your boss makes mistakes, if they agree to something that should not be approved, then we want to hear it,” he said.
“We want to honor those informed of the violations in this administration,” continued. “I really want to enable you.”
The FDA directs all media inquiries to the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services.
In an email, Andrew Nixon, a HHS spokesman, said that Kennedy says the truth that many Americans already know. “
“For a long time, the Food and Drug Administration has been captured by the same industries that are supposed to organize,” Nixon said. “Calling this and encouraging radical transparency is not controversial – it’s leadership.”