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(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, September 10, 2025)\u00a0After being criticized by the chemical industry and allied agribusiness and service industry groups on the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) report in May, the strategy document<\/a>, released yesterday, has tamped down efforts to reform government programs that regulate pesticides. There are no specific recommendations on improving the regulation of pesticides. Rather, the strategy appears to embrace business-as-usual and could even ramp up government efforts to tout the need for pesticides and claims that current regulatory reviews are effective and comprehensive.<\/p>\n

In a section of the strategy entitled \u201cIncreasing Public Awareness and Knowledge,\u201d the document says: \u201cEPA, partnering with food and agricultural stakeholders, will work to ensure that the public has awareness and confidence in EPA\u2019s pesticide robust review procedures and how that relates to the limiting of risk for users and the general public and informs continual improvement.\u201d This is at odds with the earlier MAHA assessment report which identified pesticides as substances of concern that, citing deficiencies in chemical reviews, \u201cmay be neglecting potential synergistic effects<\/a> and cumulative burdens, thereby missing opportunities to translate cumulative risk assessment into the clinical environment in meaningful ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the earlier report, Make Our Children Healthy Again: Assessment<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>cited\u00a0glyphosate<\/a>,\u00a0chlorpyrifos<\/a>, and\u00a0atrazine<\/a>\u00a0as examples of chemicals of concern, the strategy drops a clear effort to address the systemic regulatory problems pointed out in many parts of the report, given the toxic soup of chemicals permitted for use or regulated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).\u00a0<\/p>\n

A section in the strategy, entitled \u201cCumulative Exposure,\u201d basically identifies a current statutory mandate for EPA under the Food Quality Protection Act<\/em> (amending the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act<\/em> and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act<\/em>) to \u201cfocus on pesticides acting through a common mode of action.\u201d It remains to be seen what will happen and how long it will take to implement the recommendation in this section: \u201cThe EPA, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and NIH will develop a research and evaluation framework for cumulative exposure across chemical classes.\u201c However, there is nothing new here unless this strategy addresses chemical mixtures and potential synergistic effects, in addition to additive or cumulative effects.<\/p>\n

The strategy embraces chemical dependency in agriculture in a section entitled \u201cPrecision Agriculture,\u201d which states, \u201cUSDA and EPA will launch a partnership with private-sector innovators to ensure continued investment in new approaches and technologies to allow even more targeted and precise pesticide applications.\u201d The section implicitly extols the productivity benefits of the toxic pesticides identified as problematic in the first MAHA report, pointing to technology as a potential tool to \u201creduce the total amount of pesticides needed.\u201d The strategy, which suggests government funding through the proposed public-private partnership, \u201cshould focus on precision application methods, including targeted drone applications, computer-assisted targeted spray technology, robotic monitoring, and related innovations.\u201d<\/p>\n

With the embrace of pesticide dependency as stated in the \u201cPrecision Agriculture\u201d section, it remains to be seen whether the section on \u201cWater Quality\u201d could provide an opportunity to assess the hazards of pesticides in the nation\u2019s waterways and drinking water. This section states, \u201cThe EPA and USDA, along with other relevant Federal partners and in collaboration with NIH, will assess ongoing evaluations of water contaminants and update guidance and prioritizations of certain contaminants appropriately.\u201d The only example given in this context is \u201cfluoride in drinking water to inform Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommendations.\u201d While the strategy notes that CDC will \u201cupdate recommendations\u201d on PFAS<\/a>\u00a0(per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) in water, no mention is made of a specific assessment of fluorinated pesticides that invade waterways.<\/p>\n

In context of the overall strategy, the one mention of organic raises organic integrity concerns that are troubling to organic advocates. In a section entitled \u201cProcess Efficiencies and Deregulation\u201d and a subsection \u201cAgriculture Deregulation,\u201d the strategy notes that USDA will, \u201cStreamline organic certification processes and reduce costs for small farms transitioning to organic practices.\u201d One of the key elements that sets organic apart from chemical-intensive agriculture is the inspection and certification requirement that ensures organic consumers that the USDA organic seal is based on a rigorous organic systems plan and compliance with the strict standards that give farmers a price premium. Organic advocates are against deregulation, which is often code for a weakening of standards that would undermine consumer trust in the organic label. The deregulation fever that has taken hold in the current Congress and administration was recently seen with the passage of the Promoting Efficient Review for Modern Infrastructure Today (PERMIT) Act<\/em>,\u00a0H.R. 3898<\/a>, sponsored by Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) and supported by Republicans only, in the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure in the U.S. House of Representatives. The committee says in its press release on the legislation that it will \u201cCut Red Tape and Increase Clean Water Act Permitting Efficiency,\u201d but environmental groups explain that it is an attack on the safety of the nation\u2019s waterways, undermining water quality, pesticide oversight, and community right-to-know. A part of this legislation is attached to the House Interior-EPA Appropriations Bill (SEC. 460), passed out of the full Appropriations Committee, and is moving to a floor vote.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The President\u2019s\u00a0 Make America Healthy Again Commission Executive Order 14212<\/a>, issued on February 13, 2025, and the follow-up assessment report in May, included language that promised a broad strategy to protect the health of children with recommendations that addressed \u201cthe scope of the childhood chronic disease crisis and any potential contributing causes, including the American diet, absorption of toxic material, medical treatments, lifestyle, environmental factors, Government policies, food production techniques, electromagnetic radiation, and corporate influence or cronyism.\u201d The first line of the report in May characterized it as \u201ca call to action\u201d on a broad range of issues, including toxic chemical and pesticide exposure. A reading of the strategy suggests that pesticides are no longer a concern for children\u2019s health or the current administration. The science would suggest otherwise<\/a>.<\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n

Source: <\/strong>Make Our Children Healthy Again: Strategy Report<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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