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The report is not final, but indicates good news for the food and agriculture industries.

By Dani BlumBenjamin Mueller and Alice Callahan

A highly anticipated White House report on the health of American children would stop short of proposing direct restrictions on ultraprocessed foods and pesticides, which the health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has called major threats, according to a draft of the document that was reviewed by The New York Times.