See ProPublica reporting below: Reaction from Kayla Hancock, Director of Public Health Watch, a project of Protect Our Care: “There’s a good reason why the FDA used to warn against treating autism with raw camel milk and industrial strength disinfectants: it could kill you. The RFK FDA’s logic apparently goes like this: if some of you die, that’s a sacrifice they’re willing to make to make the snake oil industry great again. For the Trump administration to scrub government health information websites of legitimate warnings about public health threats is simply disgusting, deceitful and dangerous.”
ProPublica, 2.18: Chlorine Dioxide, Raw Camel Milk: The FDA No Longer Warns Against These and Other Ineffective Autism Treatments
The warning on the government website was stark. Some products and remedies claiming to treat or cure autism are being marketed deceptively and can be harmful. Among them: chelating agents, hyperbaric oxygen therapies, chlorine dioxide and raw camel milk.
Now that advisory is gone.
The Food and Drug Administration pulled the page down late last year. The federal Department of Health and Human Services told ProPublica in a statement that it retired the webpage “during a routine clean up of dated content at the end of 2025,” noting the page had not been updated since 2019. (An archived version of the page is still available online.)
Some advocates for people with autism don’t understand that decision. “It may be an older page, but those warnings are still necessary,” said Zoe Gross, a director at the Autistic Self Advocacy Network, a nonprofit policy organization run by and for autistic people. “People are still being preyed on by these alternative treatments like chelation and chlorine dioxide. Those can both kill people.”
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