RFK Jr. Pressed by Farm and Food Groups to Use ‘Sound’ Science

(Bloomberg) -- Around 300 groups representing the food and agriculture sectors urged the Trump administration to use “sound, quality science” when seeking to improve the health of American citizens.

In a letter to department heads including US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the organizations that represent soybeans to maple syrup said they were eager to share “significant concerns regarding unfounded criticisms levied against the safety of the food and agricultural value chain.”

The push comes as Kennedy looks to overhaul America’s food system and the chemicals used to grow crops. Pesticides, which are used in both conventional and organic farming, are critical components of a healthy and dynamic food system and farm economy, the groups said in the letter dated March 7.  

Failing to maintain standards that regulatory agencies already have in place “risks not only harming our nation’s growers, producers and food processors, but also the consumers we proudly serve,” according to the letter addressed to Kennedy, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin.

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