FDA allows companies to decide what food additives are safe. That may be changing.
The Food and Drug Administration lets companies self-report whether a chemical they add to food is safe. That may be changing ...
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Scientist’s Study Led FDA to Ban Red No. 3 Food Dye. Yet He Says It Is Safe
Joseph Borzelleca published a study on the food coloring Red No. 3. The FDA cited his work when banning the additive in ...
Health on MSN2d
RFK Jr. Wants to Update Food Additive Safety Rules—How It Could Affect What You Eat
The HHS Secretary has issued a directive to stop a loophole that lets companies approve their own food additives. Here's what ...
The Trump administration’s approach to food safety continues to be tough to swallow
The Trump administration’s approach to food safety was already controversial. Now, it’s worse. New safeguards related to food ...
Beyond Pesticides11d
Can FDA Step In When EPA Fails to Ensure Safety from Pesticide Mixtures in Food?
As the issue of independent review of the food industry’s GRAS declarations emerged, on another food safety issue Beyond ...
JD Supra3d
HHS, FDA Announce Multiple Initiatives on Food Safety, Quality and Compliance Fronts
In the past week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced ...
C&EN17d
Kennedy orders FDA to review food ingredient loophole
Kennedy Jr., secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services ... in the thousands,” he says. FDA has limited resources to address food safety, but last year “the public interest ...
The Victoria Advocate11d
HHS, FDA Announce Operation Stork Speed to Expand Options for Safe, Reliable, and Nutritious Infant Formula for American Families
March 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, under the leadership of U.S. Department of Health ... Food and Drug Administration is taking steps to enhance its efforts to ensure the ongoing quality ...
MSNBC7d
The Trump administration’s approach to food safety continues to be tough to swallow
The Food and Drug Administration said on Thursday that ... What’s more, the Department of Health and Human Services recently sent out emails asking most of its workforce to consider an offer ...
USA Today9d
FDA, HHS announce plans to increase testing for heavy metals, contaminates in baby formula
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will buckle down on ... In a statement issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday,HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Acting ...