MAHA Report’s ‘Research’ Language Could Reshape Pesticide Policy, Experts Warn
A pair of speakers at the Mid America CropLife Association (MACA) meeting in early September warned attendees about the potential fallout from the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Report, being spearheaded by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. for the Trump Administration. According to Ron Seeber, President/CEO at the Kansas Agribusiness Retailers Association, the agricultural industry might be wondering if the effort is just a passing fad.
But Seeber doesn’t think so.
“MAHA is not a moment, it’s a movement,” he said.
According to Harrison Pittmann, Director at the National Agriculture Law Center, many of those within the agricultural world were relieved when the second part of the MAHA report was released in mid-September, since it didn’t negatively target the use of crop protection products as some feared it might.
Harrison Pittman
Still, he told attendees the industry should be wary of what the report does say regarding research.
“I wonder about that ‘research’ wording,” said Pittmann. “In order to get a pesticide label under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, you have to satisfy a safe tolerance level. When I read that in the MAHA report, I thought that that was a tiger with a very long tail. This research question could become a platform to challenge all manners of chemistry.”
Subscribe Today For
