USRTK statement on Covid origins for Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Pesticide lobby touts MAHA report rollback as its biggest win of 2025

CropLife America successfully lobbied the MAHA Commission to remove proposed pesticide restrictions from its final strategy, marking a significant victory for the chemical industry over public health initiatives.

How food companies turn taxpayer-funded school meals into a market for ultra-processed foods

Ultra-processed food companies heavily market their products and brands through a program that lets schools send fresh USDA-supplied ingredients for processing. Most become convenience foods, including ultra-processed foods, which have been linked to many health harms.

Babies exposed to microplastics and hormone-disrupting chemicals through formula, plastic bottles, infant feeding supplies  

Babies may consume millions of microplastics and traces of harmful chemicals through infant formula, plastic bottles, and other feeding products.

Before COVID, an NIH lab chief proposed making a SARS-like bat virus more infectious

On a Sunday morning in October 2019, the chief of the virus ecology unit at the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratories emailed a postdoctoral scientist in his lab with an idea.

Drug company gifts, meals, and payments to doctors lead to worse prescribing, review of 93 studies finds

Gifts, payments, free meals, and other marketing ploys by pharmaceutical companies heavily influence doctors to prescribe more drugs, choose less appropriate treatments, and drive up prescription costs, according to a systematic review of 93 studies.