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Tuesday, April 08, 2025
In this joint opinion piece, Marshall Matz and Alan J Stone highlight Sen. Bobby Kennedy’s legacy when it comes to food policy and say that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should keep that legacy in mind.
Some groups and state agriculture leaders are beginning to rethink food as medicine programs to better connect local agricultural systems with nutrition.
Some 13.5% of U.S. households had trouble getting enough food in 2023, as food insecurity among Americans jumped once again to just under the highest rate USDA has recorded in its annual surveys.
Gaps in the Food and Drug Administration’s authority and a lack of risk management planning slowed the federal government and industry’s ability to bounce back from the 2022 infant formula shortage, according to a recent report by the National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine.
In this joint opinion piece, Roberta Wagner, senior vice president of regulatory and scientific affairs with the International Dairy Foods Association, and Stephanie Goodwin, director of nutrition policy with Danone North America, explore the benefits of the new qualified health claim for yogurt.
The Defense Department and some members of Congress are looking at ways to reduce the skyrocketing rates of food insecurity among active-duty military members.
USDA has finalized changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children Tuesday that aim to boost fruit and vegetable consumption but include cuts to milk and dairy.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is under fire again from House Republicans over the Commodity Credit Corporation, this time both for suggesting the CCC could be used to supplement farm bill funding but also for refusing to use it to make disaster relief payments to some California producers.
Infant formula supplies are at risk because of the domination of state markets that formula makers have due to the way the Women, Infants and Children nutrition assistance program operates, according to a Federal Trade Commission report.
A package of fiscal 2024 spending bills released by congressional leaders Sunday includes new provisions to address concerns about foreign acquisition of U.S. farmland and agribusiness interests and also provides full funding for the Women, Infants and Children nutrition assistance program.
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