IFCA's national partner, CropLife America sent a 12-page letter, which includes 17 policy recommendations, to HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Friday. The group said it would follow up in one week to meet with Kennedy’s team to discuss the suggestions.

The group asked for MAHA leaders to acknowledge in the August recommendations that an American agricultural system without pesticides would yield less than half its current fruit and vegetable production. It also asked the commission to support funding for several pesticide safety review systems run through the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to evaluate toxicity. The letter took aim at “unfounded scientific claims and unreliable references” in the May report, which was discovered to have several citation errors.
 
“As the Commission moves forward towards the August Strategy, CropLife recommends that it draws its conclusions exclusively from a weight-of-the-evidence evaluation of the entire body of high-quality science and data regarding agricultural systems and pesticide use,” CropLife wrote.