The Food and Drug Administration is implementing a “bold food agenda” that will strengthen oversight of chemicals in our food supply. The agenda has two new initiatives: finalization of its food chemical safety post-market assessment program and reassessing the food additives butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) and azodicarbonamide (ADA). Food chemical safety post-market assessment program The food chemical safety post-market assessment program…
The GRAS Oversight and Transparency Act would establish a federal interagency task force to review pre-2000 GRAS determinations not previously submitted to the Food and Drug Administration. Under the proposed bill introduced by Rep. Mike Lawler, the committee would include FDA, Health and Human Services (HHS), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) weighing in on…
Two members of Congress have reintroduced the Food Chemical Reassessment Act of 2025 (H.R. 4306) that would ensure chemicals introduced into our food supply years ago are still safe today. H.R. 4306 would require the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Food Chemical Safety, Dietary Supplements, and Innovation to ensure chemicals that entered the food supply chain through self-reporting or…