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Rethinking GRAS Requires More Resources
Food safety expert Steven Gendel examines the implications of proposed changes to the GRAS system and emphasizes that increased transparency will require increased resources for the FDA.
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The Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) system has been a foundational part of food ingredient regulation in the United States since 1958. It permits manufacturers to determine that a substance added to food is safe, based on publicly available scientific evidence and expert consensus, without requiring premarket approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Now, U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has directed the FDA to begin exploring rulemaking…
