The FDA’s GRAS rule lets companies decide if food additives are safe—without agency oversight. RFK Jr. now aims to close this ...

It’s time to revamp the FDA’s “generally recognized as safe,” or GRAS, program that allows companies to add untested ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services, which oversees the FDA, has promoted the falsehood that ...

The Health and Human Services secretary is pushing to change a program that allows companies to add untested ingredients to ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the Food and Drug Administration on Monday to revise its ...

U.S. secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has directed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

The Health Secretary wants to eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food ingredients are safe.

Nearly 99% of new chemicals used in food or food packaging since 2000 were green-lit for use not by the FDA but by the food and chemical industry, according to a 2022 analysis. During that period ...

Now, in office, Kennedy, also known as RFK Jr., has directed the FDA to revise safety rules to help eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food ingredients are safe.

The ‘Generally Recognized As Safe’ process apparently would continue – if only for a while – but would require FDA ...

The Health and Human Services Secretary directed the FDA to consider eliminating a pathway that allowed companies to "self-affirm" whether their ingredients are safe for consumption.

RFK Jr. says eliminating self-GRAS will provide transparency to consumers, help get our nation’s food supply back on track by ensuring that ingredients being introduced into foods are safe, and ...