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jjkaczorlast Wednesday at 5:30 PM3 repliesview on HN

Great! How will the reductions in consumer protection, health, FDA, etc. - by this current administration impact that?

https://www.food-safety.com/articles/11004-a-2025-timeline-o...


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CGMthrowawaylast Wednesday at 5:51 PM

I see how the article is framed, but I see a lot of good things in that timeline:

  MAHA Commission assessing health risks from food ingredients and chemicals and developing a strategy to combat childhood chronic disease
  Closing the GRAS loophole
  Phasing out synthetic food dyes
  $235 million specifically aimed at improving nutrition, controlling food additives and addressing food safety
  $15 million specifically for modernizing infant formula oversight
  $7 million to support critical laboratory operations
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fluidcruftlast Thursday at 12:31 AM

You asking how reductions in protections related to processed food (that already allow ultra processed foods) will affect safety when the new advice is to eat "real food" and seems to emphasize items that are pretty easy to confirm visually?

(I mean besides the fact that the FDA came into existence due to things like selling watered down white paint as "milk")