"Food and chemical companies are permitted to approve the use of new potentially harmful additives and other substances in snacks, drinks and more without the Food and Drug Administration's review and approval -- all thanks to a regulatory loophole known as the GRAS rule."
"GRAS, or 'generally recognized as safe,' is a food category created by Congress in 1958. The GRAS designation was intended to apply to ingredients widely recognized to be safe, such as salt, water, yeast and chicken breast."
"The GRAS rule, finalized in 1997, created a voluntary notification system that lets manufacturers bypass federal regulators' review. Companies can identify and use new GRAS ingredients but are not required to share this information with the FDA."
"Since 2000, food and chemical companies have used the GRAS loophole to approve 99 percent of new food chemicals, according to a 2022 EWG analysis. It leaves both the public and the FDA in the dark about the substances in our food."
"Experts estimate more than 1,000 GRAS substances have entered the food supply without FDA or public knowledge."
I never heard of this. Wonder if there is any connection with cancer rates in the population.
