Overview

• The strategy lists 128 recommendations across multiple agencies that prioritize studies, definitions, voluntary industry actions and program initiatives over binding rules.
• Nutrition and public-health experts, along with some MAHA allies, fault the plan for omitting gun violence, poverty and systemic racism and for sidelining proven steps such as soda taxes.
• The document outlines a new vaccine framework to reassess the childhood schedule and expand investigation of injuries, while stopping short of immediate policy changes.
• Specific proposals include promoting breastfeeding and donor human milk, updating FDA sunscreen standards, allowing whole milk in schools and exploring in-kind “MAHA boxes” for SNAP participants.
• Observers point to conflicts with recent safety-net cuts and agency rollbacks and allege industry influence, noting pesticide makers’ praise and a retreat on ultra-processed foods to merely defining the term.