Comment by modeless

3 days ago

Getting it out of the way before RFK can do it, huh?

A comment by redserk in another thread might be enlightening to you, as someone else made the same uninformed remark:

"Incorrect.

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2025-00830.pdf

Scroll down to "I. Introduction".

> In the Federal Register of February 17, 2023 (88 FR 10245), we announced that we filed a color additive petition (CAP 3C0323) jointly submitted by

RFK was not the HHS nominee in February 2023.

But it appears this process has been going even earlier than that: November 15, 2022 [0]

[0]: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/02/17/2023-03..."

I remain sceptical about the influence RFK has in this administration anyway, in comparison with corporate interests. Why would this time be any better than the previous Trump administration?

Might as well get some credit for the one or two good ideas he has before the antivaccine rhetoric begins and measles/mumps/whooping cough kills a few tens of thousands of people and the GQP goes "oops" and fires him and puts the old policies back in place.