Overview
- The executive order establishes Food Supply Chain Security Task Forces at the Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate price fixing and other anti-competitive practices.
- Both teams are authorized to bring enforcement actions and propose new regulations to restore competition across food supply chains.
- The Attorney General is directed to pursue criminal proceedings, including grand jury investigations, if evidence of collusion is found.
- The mandate includes assessing whether foreign-controlled firms raise prices or pose national or economic security risks in meat processing, seed, fertilizer, and farm equipment.
- The task forces must jointly brief congressional leaders at 180 and 365 days with progress summaries that exclude non‑public investigative details, and the order applies subject to existing law, available funding, and creates no private rights.