Foods / Tuesday, 09-Sep-2025

Viewpoint: Misplaced MAHA health strategy: Remove products that science says are not necessarily harmful while slashing federal programs that work

Viewpoint: Misplaced MAHA health strategy: Remove products that science says are not necessarily harmful while slashing federal programs that work

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While the decision to remove artificial food dyes is typically something people across the political spectrum can get on board with, some say it’s missing the forest for the trees to single out substances that do not have a clear link to chronic illness while existing programs providing people with healthy foods are slashed in federal budget cuts.

[S]everal decisions made in the first 100 days of the Trump administration have hobbled existing efforts to increase access to healthy foods. [In April], Dr. Mati Hlatshwayo-Davis received a notice that a program delivering food and nutrition education to seniors and children in partnership with the YMCA in St. Loui, Missouri would be cut  …. This program provided meals for low-income families in the region, where Hlatshwayo-Davis serves as the city’s Director of Health.

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Included in the 10,000 jobs cut from the HHS were also officials who monitored the food supply for contaminants at the FDA, which in the massive overhaul of federal agencies is estimated to be losing 20% of its workforce.

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