The FDA has the tools and expertise to make an important impact on the health of Americans through added sugar reduction. It should build on the momentum of its voluntary sodium reduction targets and provide similar guidance on added sugars reduction targets to create a healthier food supply and reduce the burden of diet-related chronic disease in the United States.
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CSPI supports the FDA objective of developing an antimicrobial use monitoring system for food-producing animals, as such a system can both better allow for policies targeted at reducing the practices that foster antimicrobial resistance and enable veterinarians and producers to better evaluate and consequently improve their own antimicrobial usage by comparing their practices to others.
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Dollar stores are the fastest-growing food retailer in the United States by both sheer number of stores and consumer food expenditure share. Just two corporations, Dollar General and Dollar Tree (which also owns Family Dollar), operate more than 35,000 stores across the country. A limited but growing body of research finds dollar stores offer limited healthy food options and play an especially prominent role in food environments in the South and Midwest regions and in rural communities, Black and Latine communities, and communities with limited financial resources.