HHS Proposes Mandatory FDA GRAS Ingredient Reporting

Published AUG 10

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Food companies have exploited the GRAS loophole for decades, quietly slipping untested chemicals into the food supply without telling the FDA. The proposed rule ending self-certification is a landmark shift — mandatory notification means regulators finally know what's entering human food. Closing this gap exposes the approval networks that let corporations declare their own ingredients safe while turning the public into unwitting test subjects.

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Eliminating self-affirmed GRAS would flood the FDA with thousands of submissions, creating a regulatory bottleneck that could take decades to clear and pulling safe ingredients off shelves alongside genuinely harmful ones. The smarter fix is targeted reform — prioritize high-risk substances using toxicity data, post self-GRAS determinations publicly and protect ingredients with 60-plus years of safe use. Blowing up a system that has functioned since 1958 risks spiking food prices and shrinking options for everyday consumers.

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