Rachel Roubein
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 20 Aug
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It's a
hugely important role.
The FDA is an agency that's really consequential to Americans' daily lives.
It's one of the most powerful positions in US healthcare in the government.
It oversees drugs, the safety and efficacy of vaccines, tobacco products, and the bulk of the food supply.
And the products the FDA regulates account for about 20 cents of every dollar that US
Consumers spend.
He chairs the Senate Health Committee, but also notable he lost his primary election race.
So he's a little bit more uh free politically to maybe take certain stands.
And because he chairs that committee, he has a a big role to play here.
And that raised a lot of concern from the medical community because he didn't release any of the the underlying data or say exactly
Firm guidances of what he wanted to do.
Though she
There's some people in the Make America Healthy Again movement who have not been particularly pleased by her selection as FDA commissioner.
And there's a lot of issues that go to the FDA that are important to the Make America Healthy Again movement, which is overseeing chemicals in the food supply, et cetera.
But I'm sure she'll get a lot of questions from senators to kind of nail down specifically what some of her thoughts and thinkings are.
on big ticket items.
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They will admit that there were kind of communication mistakes made during various points of the pandemic.
He believes federal agencies are essentially outmatched. This was his quote that I can't go toe to toe with social media.
Stripping ultra-processed food from school cafeterias or cracking down on food dye. And some of the food policies have support from Democratic lawmakers and other experts.
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