TAKE ACTION: FOOD & PUBLIC HEALTH
Want a healthier food system?
Pick an issue. Find the person who can change it. Copy the message. Send it.
🏛️ START HERE — FIND YOUR OFFICIALS
Find federal, state & local elected officials
USAGov — Find & Contact Elected Officials
Find your U.S. Representative
U.S. House — Find Your Representative
Find your U.S. Senators
U.S. Senate — Contact Senators
The Senate also provides the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 if someone would rather call. (U.S. Senate)
🧪 STRONGER FOOD INGREDIENT SAFETY
Contact: FDA + your members of Congress.
FDA's Human Foods Program oversees food chemical safety, nutrition and related food-safety policy. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
Contact FDA's Human Foods Program
COPY & SEND
Please support stronger food ingredient safety standards, including independent safety review, mandatory disclosure of GRAS determinations, transparent evidence, and regular reassessment of chemicals already in our food supply. Americans deserve a food-safety system that prioritizes public health and transparency.
Thank you.
🏷️ REQUIRE CLEARER FOOD LABELS
Contact: FDA + Congress.
Contact FDA's Human Foods Program
COPY & SEND
Please support clear, easy-to-understand front-of-package nutrition labeling and greater transparency about ingredients and additives. Consumers should be able to quickly understand what is in the food they purchase and make informed decisions.
Thank you.
👧 PROTECT CHILDREN FROM UNHEALTHY FOOD MARKETING
Contact: FTC + Congress.
The FTC regulates unfair or deceptive advertising and provides specific guidance concerning advertising to children, endorsements and influencers. (Federal Trade Commission)
Federal Trade Commission — Advertising & Marketing
COPY & SEND
Please support stronger protections for children from unhealthy food marketing, including advertising through social media, influencers, games and children's entertainment. Children deserve a food environment designed around their health rather than commercial pressure.
Thank you.
🏫 IMPROVE SCHOOL FOOD
Contact: Your school board/district + USDA + state/local officials.
USDA's Food and Nutrition Service administers major federal nutrition programs and provides direct public contact information. (Food and Nutrition Service)
USDA Food & Nutrition Service — Contact
Find Federal, State & Local Officials
COPY & SEND
Please support healthier school food through more fresh and minimally processed options, scratch cooking, local food purchasing, clean drinking water, food education and school gardens. Schools can help make nutritious food accessible to every child.
Thank you.
🥤 REDUCE SUGARY-DRINK EXPOSURE
Contact: State/local officials + school district + Congress.
Find Federal, State & Local Officials
COPY & SEND
Please support policies that make clean drinking water widely available and reduce children's exposure to excessive sugary-drink marketing and sales in public institutions. Healthy options should be affordable, accessible and easy to choose.
Thank you.
🥕 MAKE HEALTHY FOOD EASIER TO ACCESS
Contact: City, county and state officials.
Find State & Local Elected Officials
COPY & SEND
Please support stronger local access to affordable healthy food through community gardens, farmers markets, grocery access, local food purchasing, produce programs and community food infrastructure. Healthy eating should not depend on someone's ZIP code or income.
Thank you.
📣 COMMENT DIRECTLY ON GOVERNMENT POLICY
This should be one of the biggest buttons on the page. Regulations.gov is the federal government's portal where the public can search regulatory actions and submit comments.
SEARCH RULES & SUBMIT A PUBLIC COMMENT
COPY & ADAPT
I am writing in support of stronger public-health protections in this rule. Please prioritize independent scientific evidence, transparency, long-term health impacts, children's health, and meaningful oversight of the food industry when developing the final policy.
Thank you for considering my comment.
🚨 REPORT A FOOD SAFETY PROBLEM
This should be separate from advocacy. FDA specifically accepts reports involving illnesses, injuries, allergic reactions, quality problems and other concerns involving FDA-regulated foods and dietary supplements. (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
FDA — Report a Food or Dietary Supplement Problem
FDA Food Safety: 1-888-SAFEFOOD (1-888-723-3366). (U.S. Food and Drug Administration)
⚡ MAKE IT EVEN EASIER
At the very top and very bottom of the page, I'd repeat only these three buttons:
🏛️ FIND WHO REPRESENTS ME
📨 CONTACT THE FDA
📣 COMMENT ON A FEDERAL RULE
That gives the page the exact behavior you're after: no downloads, no homework, no hunting for email addresses, and no separate PTC pages. Someone reads about an issue, clicks the actual government contact page, copies three sentences, and sends them.