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STAT+: El-Sayed claps back at RFK Jr., and FDA’s ‘enforcement discretion’ on peptides
Nutrition · Words by John Wilkerson · Released
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, pushes back against the RFK Jr.'s claims, and the new FDA policy around peptides.

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El-Sayed’s clapback
Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan. He’s also “a second-generation immigrant, a federally funded health equity researcher, a former local public health director, and an evangelist for single-payer health care,” according to Anil Oza’s profile.