The Food and Drug Administration could roll out a new logo as soon as this year for companies to stamp on the packaging of "healthy" foods they make, aimed at clearing up confusion on what ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s “hands-off approach” to food additives, including those found in ultraprocessed foods and energy drinks, may allow unsafe ingredients to enter the nation ...

For decades, the FDA’s “generally recognized as safe,” or GRAS, designation has allowed food makers to decide for themselves ...

The FDA should reconsider the safety of previously introduced GRAS substances, including determining whether new evidence suggests that limits on the amount of the substance are required ...

The FDA's GRAS designation, which was established by the U.S. Congress in 1958, is good-intentioned on paper but flawed in execution and enforcement — making it ripe for exploitation.

FDA, Substances Generally Recognized as Safe, 62 Fed. Reg. 18938 (Apr. 17, 1997). 8. FDA issued the final rule on GRAS notification in 2016.

Under sections 201(s) and 409 of the Act, and FDA’s implementing regulations in 21 CFR 170.3 and 21 CFR 170.30, the use of a food substance may be GRAS either through scientific procedures or ...

GRAS or "generally recognized as safe" was created in 1958 under the Food Additives Amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. GRAS was applied to safe, commonly used ingredients in food.

The nonprofit Environmental Working Group found 99% of the 766 food chemicals introduced between 2000 and 2021 avoided FDA scrutiny using the GRAS ... is no longer generally recognized as safe.