(Beyond Pesticides, March 17, 2025) When Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced last week that he is directing the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to explore ...

Behind every significant advance in US food safety lies a public health disaster that forced Congress to act. A regulatory carve-out, the GRAS loophole, a long-standing exception intended for harmless ...

In the early 1900s, as Americans moved from making their own food to buying manufactured goods, manufacturers were largely unregulated. Food and drug companies did not have requirements about safety ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is attempting to get rid of a program that lets organizations add ingredients to food that hasn’t been evaluated. If the GRAS program (generally recognized safe) is ended, ...

This year, many in Congress have been working on bills to reform the Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) protocols for food ingredients. In the past week, this included Sen. Roger Marshall’s Better ...

March 11, 2025 – On March 10, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced he was directing the FDA to look into changing its rules to eliminate the ability of companies to ...

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced Thursday his intention to eliminate the Generally Recognized As Safe standards for most domestic products. "We've launched a review ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. Lizzy Lawrence leads STAT’s coverage of the ...

Representative Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, has introduced the Toxic Free Food Act, which would require the FDA to close the “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS) loophole and make chemical food additives ...

A wave of state laws aiming to ban certain chemicals from the food supply and create greater transparency in how additives are approved is reshaping the regulatory landscape and placing new scrutiny ...