{"id":35660,"date":"2025-03-11T01:37:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T01:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/rfk-jr-directs-fda-to-revise-self-affirm-rule-to-improve-food-ingredient-safety\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T01:37:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T01:37:40","slug":"rfk-jr-directs-fda-to-revise-self-affirm-rule-to-improve-food-ingredient-safety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/rfk-jr-directs-fda-to-revise-self-affirm-rule-to-improve-food-ingredient-safety\/","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr directs FDA to revise \u2018self-affirm\u2019 rule to improve food ingredient safety"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Health secretary accuses food companies of \u2018exploiting loophole\u2019 over food safety and urges greater transparency<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of health and human services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has directed the Food and Drug Administration to revise safety rules to help eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food ingredients are safe.<\/p>\n<p>The move would increase transparency for consumers as well as the FDA\u2019s oversight of food ingredients considered to be safe, Kennedy said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/10\/rfk-jr-kennedy-health-fda-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health secretary accuses food companies of \u2018exploiting loophole\u2019 over food safety and urges greater transparency The US secretary of health and human services, Robert F Kennedy Jr, has directed the Food and Drug Administration to revise safety rules to help eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food ingredients are safe. The move &#8230; <a title=\"RFK Jr directs FDA to revise \u2018self-affirm\u2019 rule to improve food ingredient safety\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/rfk-jr-directs-fda-to-revise-self-affirm-rule-to-improve-food-ingredient-safety\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about RFK Jr directs FDA to revise \u2018self-affirm\u2019 rule to improve food ingredient safety\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}