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22 Mar: Early GRAS designations could come under unnecessary review

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…

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28 Jul: Reintroduced Bill Would Require FDA to Regularly Reassess Food Chemicals

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…