Ultra-Processed Food Research and EPA's Insecticide Strategy
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**With debate about ultra-processed foods frequently making headlines, the University of California, Davis, Department of Food Science and Technology highlighted work its researchers have published.
Part of the challenge is the speed at which processed foods and ingredients are now created.
Professor and food chemist Alyson Mitchell says we’re creating ingredients so rapidly, we don’t have time to study them. Food technology has moved faster than health studies have.
**The Environmental Protection Agency released its final Insecticide Strategy that identifies practical protections for federally endangered and threatened species from the use of insecticides.
At the same time, it also provides flexibility for pesticide users and growers.
The Strategy identifies mitigations aimed at protecting more than 900 species listed by the Fish and Wildlife Service that the EPA considers when it registers a new insecticide or reevaluates an existing one.
**Lawmakers are sending signals that a new farm bill isn’t certain this year.
Reports say Republican lawmakers are considering adding Biden-era conservation programs to their party-line megabill that may have otherwise been separate.
Politico says this may mean Republicans are doubting their chances of getting a new, bipartisan farm bill this year.
GOP lawmakers have rejected Democrats push to add conservation money to the farm bill but now seem more open to it.
