Dietary Guidelines Reform Act of 2025

The "Dietary Guidelines Reform Act of 2025" seeks to significantly amend the National Nutrition Monitoring and Related Research Act of 1990, fundamentally altering how the nation's dietary guidelines are established. This legislation changes the required update frequency for these guidelines from every five years to at least every 10 years, though more frequent updates are permitted if necessitated by new scientific advancements or updated dietary reference intake values. The development of these reports will now be subject to formal rulemaking requirements, ensuring a more structured and transparent process. Under the proposed changes, the dietary guidelines must be grounded in significant scientific agreement , determined through a defined evidence-based review process that includes external peer review. They are required to be current, address high-priority health outcomes, and promote nutritional adequacy through affordable, available, and accessible food recommendations. Notably, the bill explicitly prohibits the inclusion of topics unrelated to dietary guidance, such as taxation, social welfare policies, or food production practices, in the final reports. A new Independent Advisory Board will be established for each update cycle, comprising experts in nutrition and food science, to generate scientific questions that inform the Secretaries' work on the guidelines. To enhance public trust, the bill mandates full disclosure of all financial and nonfinancial conflicts of interest for members of both the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee and the Independent Advisory Board. These disclosures, along with a plan for managing identified conflicts, must be made publicly available within 30 days of committee establishment.