The Trump administration issued its long-awaited Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission report Thursday, hammering various industries while deviating from mainstream science on key issues including farming practices, vaccinations and psychiatric medications.

President Trump appointed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the MAHA Commission, which issued its first report on children’s health Thursday. It pointed to four key factors that it says are hurting U.S. children: ultraprocessed foods, environmental chemicals, digital behavior and “overmedicalization.”

The report identifies pesticides and other chemicals as potentially having harmful health impacts, but it stops short of recommending actions to limit them — disappointing some advocates.

When it came to childhood mental and physical health, the report concludes that large corporations are distorting the U.S. health system for the sake of profits.

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Stops short of calling for action against chemicals and pesticides

“There is a growing concern about the link between environmental health risks, particularly cumulative risks, and chronic disease,” the report states.

“Furthermore, in the past nearly 30 years, the chemicals children are exposed to have grown - and no country fully understands how the cumulative impact of this growth impacts health,” it continues.

However, rather than calling for specific actions against these health threats, the report says more studies are needed, including from the National Institutes of Health, to fully understand the impacts of things like microplastics and pesticides.

In particular, it mentions glyphosate, the chemical in Roundup weed killer, which has been the subject of thousands of lawsuits, many of which allege that it causes cancer, though the company has denied this.

The report also mentions atrazine, a commonly used pesticide that has been found to disrupt the endocrine system and has been banned in the European Union

Also on the list to study more are PFAS, toxic substances used in nonstick and waterproof products that can last in the environment for hundreds of years, as well as phthalates, which are used to make plastics flexible and have been found to........

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