WASHINGTON — Meals and Drug Administration officers briefed senators on the company’s plans for meals coverage for 2026, in keeping with an individual acquainted with the assembly.
The company plans to give attention to toddler method security, updating meals labels, defining ultra-processed meals, increasing inspections of meals processing crops, and bolstering seafood security applications, in keeping with a doc shared with lawmakers, obtained by STAT.
The assembly comes amid a shift within the administration’s well being agenda towards meals points and away from vaccine coverage. In latest polls, meals reforms have been extra widespread than the vaccine agenda, catching the eye of administration officers seeking to sharpen their message for the midterms.
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