A vaccine expert who has frequently criticized Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been removed from the Food and Drug Administration’s vaccine advisory committee.

Dr. Paul Offit, the co-inventor of the rotavirus vaccine and an infectious disease specialist at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, told the Daily Beast that he was abruptly dismissed from the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biologics Products Advisory Committee last week, after serving two four-year terms beginning in 2017.

An outspoken critic of Kennedy who has called the health secretary a “dangerous man” and an “agent of chaos in the vaccination world,” Offit said that a senior FDA official had previously asked for him to stay on for a third term.

His removal comes amid major turmoil at agencies overseen by Kennedy,

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