60 Minutes 58x17 - Generally Recognized as Safe | YoungestSurvivors

Generally Recognized as Safe – As an increasing number ofAmericans across the political spectrum voice concerns aboutthe health risks of ultra-processed foods, correspondent BillWhitaker speaks with Health and Human ServicesSecretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former commissioner ofthe U.S. Food and Drug Administration Dr. David Kessler.Whitaker reports on a decades-old government classification forsubstances in our food and why Kennedy and Kessler are callingfor change. Sarah Koch is the producer.Youngest Survivors –Eighty years after the end of World War II and liberation ofthe last remaining Nazi concentration camps,correspondent Lesley Stahl reports on the miraculous story ofthree pregnant women and their babies, who survived notoriousslave labor and concentration camps, including Auschwitz.Stahl meets the three "babies," now 80 years old, who wereborn after their mothers concealed their pregnancies from theirNazi captors and gave birth under the most horrific conditionsimaginable. The story of their survival and how they found eachother 65 years later involves seemingly impossible twists offate, luck, and unfathomable suffering. Stahl also tells thetale of the American medic who was part of the liberation ofthe camps and discovered, and ultimately helped save, one ofthe babies. This is a double-length segment. Shari Finkelsteinis the producer.