President Trump has issued an Executive Order (the Order) directing the Department of Justice (DOJ) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to launch investigations into the U.S. food sector, focusing on potential price-fixing, other forms of criminal collusion, and non-criminal anticompetitive conduct. The Order creates new Food Supply Chain Security Task Forces within both agencies, empowered to examine whether anticompetitive behavior—particularly by foreign-controlled companies—is driving up the cost of food products. The Attorney General may pursue…