The Trump administration’s upcoming report on children’s health outcomes won’t restrict common food production practices like pesticide use, according to draft strategy documents obtained by POLITICO.
The industry-friendly draft, if finalized, would be a win for food and farm groups, which had feared just how far the Make America Healthy Commission would go in its quest to revamp the nation’s food supply and chronic disease crisis. It would also show how much the White House has reined in Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who chairs the commission and has been a longtime opponent of pesticides.
The policy recommendations include minor changes like investigating food ingredients and chemical exposures and reforming FDA regulatory pathways. The draft also includes vaccine-related items that are light on detail but reflect Kennedy’s long-held criticism of immunization safety.
“It’s an administration at war with itself, because there are way too many industry influences on certain things, and the way they’re getting their way is to try to keep sniping at Bobby,” said Dave Murphy, a MAHA ally and former fundraiser for Kennedy’s presidential bid, in response to the report.
