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Conflicts of interest permeate the governance of the federal advisory committees that issue recommendations to consumer protection agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), and, therefore, American consumers need a federal solution to protect their health from biased recommendations. In order to promote a business-friendly food pyramid, agribusinesses and food industrialists lobby for dietary guidelines to adapt the dietary guidelines illustrated by the food pyramid to boos their sales. The resulting guidelines cause great damage to public health, environmental pollution, and loss of democratic freedoms. As a result, the FDA and USDA’s bifurcated tasks, protection of both food producers and consumers, create a conflict of interest within the agencies that often favor the food industry over consumer protection. This paper describes the problems embedded within the FDA and USDA’s conflict of interest and the resulting revolving door of the heavily-invested lobbyists, and, finally, suggest statutory amendments to solve this problem. The proposed amendments will dispense with ineffective disclosure requirements and eliminate the possibility to waive conflicts of interest for advisory committee members. By rebalancing the composition of the advisory committees and the scientific bases for the dietary recommendations, the proposed amendments will close the loopholes that large food industrialists currently abuse. The result will be that the consumer protections agencies, such as the FDA and USDA are empowered to police the federal advisory committees issuing the dietary recommendations and prevent government officials’ from breaching their fiduciary duties to American consumers.

Dead People Don’t Eat: Food Governmentenomics and Conflicts-of-Interest in the USDA and FDA