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  • 8 months ago
At a press briefing on Tuesday, HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discussed FOIA protocols.
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00:00hi Emily Kopp daily caller when will HHS FOIA offices be restored this is
00:08important for many of your stated priorities adverse events food
00:20when is our foia oh we are going to we're restoring all the foia offices
00:29and we're going to make it much easier for people to to get the information we're
00:35going to try to post as much as we can we're going to start a website with all
00:40former FOIA requests and the documents that were produced so people don't have
00:45to do it again and again and we're going to try to get as close as we can to
00:50total transparency in this agency you know I spent a lot of years litigating
00:55under FOIA and I experienced the frustration of going year after year
01:00and being stonewalled by the agencies a lot of the people who are in HHS right
01:05now are come from that background so we all understand how important it is to
01:12have you know clear communications what we the papers that we produce in this
01:16agency do not belong to us they belong to the American people and we need to be
01:21honest with them as the question before you about the drugs and the pharmaceutical
01:33products and the additives to the pharmaceutical products right now Jay
01:37Bhattacharya is working as this is assembling teams all over the country of
01:43sciences and universities and research centers don't look at all of those
01:47products so that we can have I mean one of the problems is we don't have good
01:51science on everything and we need to have science before we take policy action
01:56and that science has been suppressed systematically for decades because of the
02:02conflicts in this agency we're going to remove those conflicts we're doing the
02:06science already doing it and I will be announcing a series of grant
02:13opportunities this summer on all of these different ingredients and we're gonna
02:18have good information for the American public and then we will take appropriate
02:21action
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