President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration has not minced his words when talking about chemical contaminants in the nation’s food supply.
Dr. Martin “Marty” Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon and critic of the Biden administration’s Covid-19 response, could become FDA commissioner, pending Senate confirmation, in the middle of the agency’s massive overhaul of its Human Foods Program.
“Maybe we need to talk about the environmental exposures that cause cancer, not just the chemo to treat it,” Makary said during a Senate panel in September. “We’ve got to talk about food as medicine and research these areas.”
Makary’s views that “we have poisoned our food supply” with “highly addictive chemicals that we’ve engineered” and pesticides, as discussed during the panel, align with the “Make America Healthy Again” espoused by his potential future boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
