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Agriculture Secretary Brooke L. Rollins signed six new SNAP food-choice waivers on August 4, 2025, at the Great American Farmers Market.

President Trump signed an executive order to reimplement the Presidential Fitness Test across U.S. schools.

Health and Human Services Director Robert F. Kennedy swore in Susan Monarez as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Coca-Cola announced that it will offer products with cane sugar as well as high fructose corn syrup.

Starting August 1, Steak ’n Shake will serve Coca-Cola with real cane sugar in glass bottles, a move aligned with President Donald Trump’s “Make America Healthy Again” (MAHA) campaign. The announcement follows Trump’s statement that Coca-Cola has agreed to start using real cane sugar in its U.S. products.

U.S. dairy farms have pledged to remove artificial dyes from their products by the beginning of 2028.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has approved a petition to use gardenia (genipin) blue as a food dye.

Despite numerous companies signaling support for Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s "Make America Healthy Again" (MAHA) efforts, one major candy producer signaled it would not join the health initiative.

The Hershey Company announced that it will remove artificial food dyes from its products by the end of 2027.

Nestlé announced that it will take steps to align its products with the "Make America Healthy Again" initiative, pledging to remove all Food, Drug & Cosmetic (FD&C) colors.