Last month’s Make America Healthy Again report, and two related FDA advisory panels on talcum powder and infant formula, focus on products at the center of much mass tort litigation.
The defense bar is sounding the alarm about Donald Trump’s Make America Healthy Again report and advisory panels held by the Food and Drug Administration focused on both talcum powder and infant formula, but plaintiffs’ lawyers who sue over those same products stopped short of calling the health initiatives a boon to their practices.
The MAHA report, issued on May 22 by the newly created Make America Healthy Again Commission, focuses on chronic and widespread health problems affecting America’s children and covers a broad range of topics, many of which, like pesticides, microplastics, heavy metals and ultra-processed foods, have been the subject of lawsuits. In fact, the American Tort Reform Association decried the report as “ammo” for the plaintiffs bar.
