Dietary Guidelines Reform Act of 2025

Key Points

• The bill stretches the update cycle for federal Dietary Guidelines from every 5 years to at least every 10 years, giving officials more time between reports but slowing how fast new nutrition science becomes official advice.
• A new 8-member Independent Advisory Board would be created for each guideline update, split between administration appointees and picks by opposing-party congressional leaders, to help set the scientific questions the guidelines must answer.
• Guidelines must be based on rigorous evidence-based review with external peer review, and each guideline must get a rating for the strength of its supporting evidence.
• The bill bans future guidelines from covering topics like taxation, social welfare policy, food purchases in federal feeding programs, farming practices, food labeling, or socioeconomic and cultural factors, keeping the reports narrowly focused on nutrition science.
• Anyone appointed to advisory committees must publicly disclose financial and nonfinancial conflicts of interest, and the government must publish a plan for managing any conflicts within 30 days of a committee's formation.
• USDA is authorized to spend $5 million per year from 2025 through 2029 to carry out the new process, drawn from existing agricultural marketing funds.