Great! How will the reductions in consumer protection, health, FDA, etc. - by th...

CGMthrowaway · 2026-01-07T17:51:58 1767808318

I see how the article is framed, but I see a lot of good things in that timeline:

  MAHA Commission assessing health risks from food ingredients and chemicals and developing a strategy to combat childhood chronic disease
  Closing the GRAS loophole
  Phasing out synthetic food dyes
  $235 million specifically aimed at improving nutrition, controlling food additives and addressing food safety
  $15 million specifically for modernizing infant formula oversight
  $7 million to support critical laboratory operations

Forgeties79 · 2026-01-07T20:17:28 1767817048

> $235 million specifically aimed at improving nutrition, controlling food additives and addressing food safety

Musk’s disastrous months with the admin defunded and ended a program bringing local farmers’ produce et al to public schools around my state so I’m a little bitter seeing this one.

hn_acc1 · 2026-01-07T21:47:04 1767822424

Even then, 95% of it is probably already earmarked / targeted for some friend's grift.

Forgeties79 · 2026-01-08T14:42:41 1767883361

Without a doubt

russdill · 2026-01-07T20:08:55 1767816535

Anything with money amounts, my next question is how much money were we previously spending on that thing.

websiteapi · 2026-01-07T20:39:38 1767818378

If simply spending money worked USA would be the most healthy.

russdill · 2026-01-07T20:44:42 1767818682

Look, we could spend a fraction of what we do, but then there would be people who get things for free or even fraudulently. You can see just how bad that would be from an American mindset.

CGMthrowaway · 2026-01-07T20:59:09 1767819549

Roughly $20-30 million/year specifically aimed at nutrition, additives and diet-related food safety. So this is a 8-10x increase.

russdill · 2026-01-07T21:05:27 1767819927

I'm not seeing numbers supporting that https://www.fda.gov/media/166050/download

derbOac · 2026-01-08T08:53:38 1767862418

What they see as necessary to combat childhood chronic disease is not necessarily what most scientists would say is necessary to combat childhood chronic disease, and might even be detrimental. Also if the new dietary recommendations are any clue, what they see as "improving nutrition" might be questionable.

The devil is in the details.

fluidcruft · 2026-01-08T00:31:46 1767832306

You asking how reductions in protections related to processed food (that already allow ultra processed foods) will affect safety when the new advice is to eat "real food" and seems to emphasize items that are pretty easy to confirm visually?

(I mean besides the fact that the FDA came into existence due to things like selling watered down white paint as "milk")