RFK Jr. says ‘entire departments’ at FDA ‘have to go’

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4976746-robert-kennedy-potential-role-trump-administration/

29 comments

  5. Mr. Anti-Vax Brainworms is going to be in charge of Public Health. Let that sink in for a moment.

    This is worse than the Idiocracy timeline. It’s time to seriously consider leaving this country, because it’s only downhill from here.

  7. I’m calling it boys: measles, polio and tuberculosis will be endemic diseases within a decade!

    It’s gonna be great!

  8. I actually wouldn’t be surprised if Trump backstabs this kook and doesn’t give him a job at all.

  9. If you didn’t grow it or import it you might not want to eat it or take it.

  10. if there’s one thing I can hold on to with this, it’s that Trump’s administration had extremely high turnover. I would not at all put it past him to embrace RFK Jr during the election just to throw them away as soon as the man annoys him. in fact I would be more surprised if RFK Jr actually makes it through the whole 4 years

  11. Oh great, we’re back to putting foxes in charge of the hen house again.

  12. Between what’s gonna happen to healthcare and this, I wonder how many Republicans will survive they aren’t exactly know for being in shape ?

  14. The FDA situation is actually very concerning. Now is the time to start growing your own food lol.

  15. You get a brainworm, you get a brainworm, everybody gets a brainworm!!

    (And polio, measles, rubella, mumps and tetanus because fuck vaccines)

  16. And so begins the dismantling of our institutions. Our superpower status will take decades to rebuild if we survive this period of chaos and corruption. What a sad day.

  17. Trump 2016: 1 million deaths!

    Trump 2024: Hold my Diet Coke

  18. This mother fucker at HHS and the US dropping out of nato are the things I’m really stressed about.

    Lot of the other shit probably will not happen but these two will and they are existential.

  19. “I don’t care about politics, both sides are the same” fuck these people.

  20. And will destroy all global pharma/biotech/medics device companies’ current and future prospects of doing business in the US…job losses, companies going bust…the future in all aspects of healthcare can be kissed goodbye.

  21. So, USA is going to pull an Argentina, and start gutting government agencies?

    Bold move. 

  22. As a person who heads a quality dept in FDA-regulated industries, it’s up to me and others in similar roles to hold the line to protect consumer safety. It’s not much, but it’s what I can do.

    For those that care, organic, Kosher, and Halal certifiers are not going to be affected as quickly as FDA. There is still oversight from those certifying bodies. There is additional layer of protection for those certified products.

    Be safe out there, yall.

    ETA a comment i posted as a reply but may help others:

    So for Organic, Halal, and Kosher, to get the mark you have to comply with a set of standards that mirror the GMPs (Code of Federal regulations applicable to each industry). They require documentation, traceability of ingredients, and due to the requirement for manufacturers of ingredients to also be certified (organic specifically), site visits are also performed.

    For organic, for example, once a year they audit our facilities and look at cleanliness and associated records. Making sure we have a recall plan, a food safety plan, that we are getting certificates of food safe conformity for packaging materials. They have to know WHO we are buying from, and they have to know that THAT vendor is being visited annually.

    And that’s just organic. With Kosher it’s the same deal, plus monthly random inspections. So a kosher organic product has 2 groups making sure I don’t use sawdust as a food filler.

    Despite paying the certifier a fee, they are not easily swayed. Their reputation is on the line as a certifying body, so looking the other way on a requirement can be business suicide.

    You know how often fda inspects food, cosmetic, or supplement facilities? Not annually, that’s for sure. They rely on USDA to do the heavy lifting and are only CFR-required to routinely visit supplement manufacturers.

    This is a brief rundown, let me know if you’ve got questions. Thanks for reading.

  24. Americans will be banned from travelling to other countries because they will spread the plague. Think on that.

  25. As a physician who’s now served during Ebola and COVID this infuriates me.

    I’ve already spent the last 4 years having to argue and disprove all my anti vaxxer patients who are so adamant about their “facts”. What makes matters worse is I work in a heavily red area but thank goodness will be changing jobs in a few months.

    Still, RFK is going to be a public health crisis and take us back 100+ years.

  26. You know how we’ve been having a bunch of listeria and salmonella issues lately?

    Get ready for more of that.

  27. Having this degenerate at Cabinet level leadership is gonna make Betsy DeVos running Department of Education look like the Golden Age. 

  28. You thought Boars Head was bad? This is gonna be a fucking horror show.

  29. Lol trump supporters. You did this. Go ahead, spawn your children and blame everybody else when they inevitably die of preventable diseases.

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