Exhibit 542

2015 Dietary Guidelines: Giving You the Tools You Need to Make Healthy Choices

Exhibit 542 · Agency blog post

2015 Dietary Guidelines: Giving You the Tools You Need to Make Healthy Choices

because this is a matter of scope, we do not believe that the 2015 DGAs are the appropriate vehicle for this important policy conversation about sustainability.

The Secretaries state that the 2015 guidelines will not include sustainability and tie that decision to the scope of the 1990 Act.

Source: Secretaries Vilsack (USDA) and Burwell (HHS)
Date: 6 October 2015
Quoted from: Paragraph beginning 'In terms of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines'
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2015/10/06/2015-dietary-guidelines-giving-you-tools-you-need-make-healthy-choices
Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/2015/https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2015/10/06/2015-dietary-guidelines-giving-you-tools-you-need-make-healthy-choices
Accessed: 2026-11-09
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Finding AGR-4.4: Primary record In 2015 the House Appropriations Committee wrote that the advisory committee's report "included extraneous factors and policy recommendations that are outside of the statutory requirement, such as agriculture production practices including sustainability, taxes, food labeling and marketing policies." Public Law 114-113 section 734 then barred release of the 2015-2020 guidelines unless each guideline "is based on significant scientific agreement" and "is limited in scope to nutritional and dietary information." On 6 October 2015 Secretaries Vilsack and Burwell announced that sustainability would not be in the guidelines "because this is a matter of scope."