Full Committee Hearing: What Is the FDA Doing to Reduce the Diabetes and Obesity Epidemics in America and Take on the Greed of the Food and Beverage Industry?

Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Senate Committee · December 5, 2024

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Chair Sanders called the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to order and opened the hearing on prevention, obesity and type 2 diabetes, framing front-of-package labeling and industry influence as the day's focus.

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Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee held a hearing with FDA Commissioner Robert Califf and Deputy Commissioner (Human Foods) M. Jones on federal responses to rising obesity and type 2 diabetes, proposed front-of-package nutrition labeling, food additives and chemical review, and FDA capacity for inspections and supply-chain oversight. Senators pressed FDA on missed rulemaking deadlines, the science and legal constraints around food dyes, and steps the agency is taking on inspections, infant formula resilience, and cosmetics implementation.

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