On August 10, 2026, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, and Kyle Diamantas, Acting FDA Commissioner, unveiled two landmark food policy actions under the Trump administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda: a proposed rule to close the GRAS loophole by requiring mandatory notification of chemicals added to food, and the federal government’s first official definition of ultra-processed foods (UPFs).
