Regulating the Safety of Food Additives

Earlier this year, the Pew Health Group convened a workshop titled “Enhancing FDA’s Evaluation of Science to Ensure Chemicals Added to Human Food Are Safe.” Co-sponsored by IFT and Nature, the workshop engaged participants in a discussion on the complexity, strengths, and weaknesses of the safety assessment system for substances added to food and contributed to the Advancing Regulatory Science Initiative launched by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). A main backdrop of the workshop was…