The Minister of Health and Humanitarian Services (HHS) has announced Robert F. Kennedy Junior said that federal agents have raided the country in the country to seize Chinese VAPE products, warning that these operations indicate the beginning of a broader campaign.
“The Chinese become richer while our children become more ill, and we put an end to that,” Kennedy Declare At a press conference on Monday. Between August 1 and August 14, in partnership with ATF [Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives] And FDA [Food and Drug Administration]We bought distributors in five different states: in Illinois, New Jersey, North Carolina, Arizona, then we did more in California and Florida with ATF. “
Kennedy said that the coordinated implementation included ATF visits to 14 different parts of division, while HHS investigators targeted five distributors. “The result is today, we are raids … all over the country to confiscate Vapes. Today, these gentlemen of ATF and FDA 50 truck loads of this substance, and 90 percent of them come from China,” Kennedy said. He stressed that the procedures are designed “to target the largest distributors, and also send a message throughout this entire industry, it will not be tolerated with this anymore.”
Kennedy, the virtue of the Public Prosecutor Pam Bondi with the leadership of the effort. “There is a new sheriff in the city. Its name is Bam Bondi, and we will aim for this Chinese Vapes and prevent them from poisoning our children,” he said.
These statements resonated Kennedy’s previous data on the Chinese influence on the American market. In 2023, while running for the presidency Kennedy to caution The hedge funds in Wall Street and Chinese investors were turning American farms into “companies’ fertilizers”. At that time, he pointed out that China has approximately 384,000 acres of American agricultural lands and urged restrictions on these purchases.
Kennedy also follows the movements of enforcement and other policy in recent months. In April, Kennedy Claim Under the Biden Administration, HHS became “collaborating in children’s smuggling”, unlike that period with the directives of the new Trump administration. He also pointed to the efforts made to gradually get rid of petroleum -based food dyes and review food instructions.
In July Charged Two Chinese citizens who act as agents of the People’s Republic of China in an alleged effort to collect intelligence information for US military service members.