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In case you missed it, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner David Kessler appeared on 60 Minutes this past Saturday, February 15, in a segment titled “Generally Recognized as Safe.” As the title suggests, the conversation centered on FDA’s Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) regulatory pathway (for background, see our prior post discussing in more detail the GRAS process), as well as Commissioner Kessler’s August 2025 citizen petition urging FDA to revoke the GRAS status of refined carbohydrates used in industrial food processing (discussed in more detail in our earlier coverage of the petition).
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On September 30, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a Request for Public Comment to obtain feedback from interested parties on current approaches to measuring and evaluating the performance of AI-enabled medical devices. Specifically, FDA is seeking feedback on best practices, methodologies and approaches for measuring and evaluating real-world performance of AI-enabled medical devices from the public.
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On June 24, 2025, in a hearing before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr. revealed that his department plans to soon launch an advertising campaign encouraging Americans to use wearable health devices. The campaign is set to be “one of the biggest advertising campaigns in HHS history.”
