BATON ROUGE — With the nation’s health secretary watching, Gov. Jeff Landry on Friday signed bills he said were aimed at “enhancing nutritional standards” as well as removing food additives and promoting the purchase of locally sourced produce and other healthy foods.
“We can, we must, we will do better,” Landry told an audience at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center with Secretary of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., standing beside him.
The law, which author Sen. Patrick McMath called the “Make America Healthy Again Act,” also requires doctors to complete a nutrition and metabolic health course every four years…