More than 250 groups representing farmers, ranchers, and agrochemical companies urged the Trump administration on Tuesday to seek their input on future activities of the Make America Healthy Again Commission, after the body’s first report pointed to pesticides as a possible health risk. Reuters reports the farm sector has been pushing for more involvement in the work of the commission, established by President Donald Trump in February and named for the social movement aligned with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
The MAHA report released in May was produced without adequate input from the farm sector and, as a result, “contained numerous errors and distortions that have created unfounded fears about the safety of our food supply,” said the letter sent on Tuesday morning to Kennedy, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin. “The MAHA Commission would benefit from inviting public comment and formally including representatives from food and agriculture in any future reports,” said the letter.
