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GRAS Self-Affirmation for Food Ingredients – To Be or Not to Be?
What Happened: HHS Secretary Kennedy directed FDA to consider removing the current self-affirmation pathway for determining that a food ingredient is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS). Who’s ...
Packaging Gateway3h
Strict rules that govern food packaging in the US
The FDA conducts detailed safety assessments of all food contact materials, considering factors like chemical migration and ...
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RFK Jr takes aim at self-GRAS process, but what does it mean in practice?
Proposals to eliminate the self-affirmed GRAS pathway have sent shockwaves through the food industry. But what do they mean ...
RFK Jr. wants to eliminate FDA’s controversial food additive program. Here’s why that matters
It’s time to revamp the FDA’s “generally recognized as safe,” or GRAS, program that allows companies to add untested ...
JD Supra1d
RFK Jr. Calls to End the Self-Affirming GRAS “Loophole”
Through an Order that the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) ...
What’s really in your food? RFK Jr. wants to close this FDA approval loophole
The U.S. health secretary has vowed to close an FDA loophole that has allowed food companies to self-police the safety of new ...
RFK Jr. to change FDA rule that allows companies to hide food ingredient safety data
“For far too long, ingredient manufacturers and sponsors have exploited a loophole that has allowed new ingredients and ...
MedTech Dive1d
Top device firms report safety data late: BMJ
BD, Medtronic and Abbott were among the top 10 medical device manufacturers with the highest number of late reports, the ...
Food Processing8d
RFK Jr. Asks FDA to Explore Eliminating Self-Affirmed GRAS Rule
The ‘Generally Recognized As Safe’ process apparently would continue – if only for a while – but would require FDA ...
GlobalData on MSN8d
RFK Jr. directs FDA to tighten up food safety rules
The Health Secretary wants to eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food ingredients are safe.
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Kennedy orders FDA to review food ingredient loophole
US Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directs the Food and Drug Administration to explore revamping ...
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Kennedy asks FDA to revise rule for food ingredient safety
U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. directed the Food and Drug Administration on Monday to revise ...