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‘Come and Take It’: Healey Challenges RFK Jr.’s Request for Dunkin’, Starbucks Ingredients
Governor Maura Healey defended Dunkin’ Donuts amid Health Secretary RFK Jr.’s call for ingredient safety proof, highlighting local opposition to federal food regulation changes.
- Posting a stylized 'Come and Take It' image, Healey responded with a Dunkin' cup replacing the cannon, signaling resistance to federal action, on March 5, 2026.
- Last week, Kennedy told crowds in Austin, Texas, 'We're going to ask Dunkin' Donuts and Starbucks, 'Show us the safety data that show that it's OK for a teenage girl to drink an iced coffee with 115 grams of sugar in it,'.
- Healey's office shared her regular Dunkin order—a medium hot with cream—as many Bay State consumers pushed back online and a reader poll of more than 770 showed a near-even split.
- It is unclear whether Kennedy's comments will prompt formal action affecting companies like Dunkin, while the Department of Health and Human Services said the focus is transparent, science-based evaluation.
- Kennedy's broader reform push includes closing the 'GRAS loophole' that lets companies self-certify ingredients, highlighting tensions between national health policy and regional brands.
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‘Come and take it’: Massachusetts governor challenges RFK Jr.’s request for Dunkin’, Starbucks ingredients
Gov. Maura Healey is telling Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “come and take” her Dunkin’ coffees from her in response to Kennedy questioning the safety of the sugary drinks offered by Dunkin’ and Starbucks. “Come And Take It,” read an image with a star above it posted by Healey to her official X account Wednesday. The post had quoted a Boston Globe article reporting that Kennedy said he may potentially pull certain i…
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Hastings Tribune‘Come and take it’: Healey challenges RFK Jr.’s request for Dunkin’, Starbucks ingredients
BOSTON — Gov. Maura Healey is telling Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to “come and take” her Dunkin’ coffees from her in response to Kennedy questioning the safety of the sugary drinks offered by Dunkin’ and…
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