More than 100 science, medical and nutrition experts signed an open letter sent on Friday to the Office of Management and Budget, urging the administration to release the first-ever government definition of ultraprocessed foods, according to PBS NewsHour's report.
PBS NewsHour reported that the letter is the experts' effort to push the government toward a formal definition of the term. The outlet's headline frames the appeal as being directed at RFK Jr., while the summary of the report describes the letter as addressed to the Office of Management and Budget. The summary does not explain how those two references relate to each other.
The report is credited to Genesis Magpayo. The summary does not provide a definition of ultraprocessed foods itself, and it does not describe what a federal definition would contain or how it would be used.
The available summary also does not say whether a timeline was set for release, and it does not include any response from the Office of Management and Budget or the administration. This account is based only on the summary of the PBS NewsHour report, and readers seeking the experts' full reasoning can consult the original report.