New evidence reveals how ultra-processed foods reshape children’s brain development, mood, and attention, highlighting why ...

Political and regulatory efforts to define ultra-processed foods and discourage their consumption could have unintended consequences when paired with funding cuts for public health programs, which ...

WASHINGTON – Top Food and Drug Administration officials met multiple times earlier this year to discuss the regulation of ultra-processed foods, according to internal agency calendars obtained by STAT ...

Thirty years ago, Richard Nixon’s secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Earl Butz, relayed a message to farmers that transformed American agriculture: “Get big or get out.” ...

Americans broadly support some of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s food regulation agenda — from removing artificial dyes to increasing safety and labeling — though they distrust Kennedy ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has started the process of adding more regulation to U.S. food markets. Undoubtedly, Kennedy believed this would bring to heel what has been dubbed “Big Food,” the large food ...

Author and science journalist Deborah Blum describes how an Indiana chemist kicked off the first major food regulation in the U.S. It was common in the 1800s for people to consume milk containing ...

If you buy a package of cheese puffs in Asia or Europe, it would probably have a shorter and simpler list of ingredients than the same pack of puffs purchased in the U.S. That’s because the Food and ...