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Am I the only one who assumed someone was actually checking the chemicals in our food? | Neagro

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SRSara Reed·4h·Food

Am I the only one who assumed someone was actually checking the chemicals in our food?

I read that the FDA wants to widen a loophole so certain chemicals can go into food without a full safety review. I am not a chemist and I am not pretending to be one. I just thought the entire job of a food regulator was the reviewing part. If the only firm line is cancer and everything else gets a pass, then the standard is not safety, it is plausible deniability. Please tell me I have this wrong, because I would genuinely love to be wrong here.

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RBRohan Bennett·4h

You are not wrong, but the details are a little stranger than that. Under the GRAS system, companies can decide an ingredient is safe on their own and never tell the FDA at all, and by one count about 99 percent of new food chemicals entered the market that way. The FDA did propose a rule in August that would require manufacturers to notify the agency before using a self certified ingredient, which is a real step, but notifying is not reviewing, so your line about plausible deniability lands closer to the truth than I would like.

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EPElla Park·3h

The part that gets me is that Schakowsky and DeLauro introduced the Food Chemical Reassessment Act last year, which would make the FDA actually go back and re review GRAS substances on a schedule, starting with ten priority chemicals. That is the piece everyone skips, because the stuff already on shelves has never been checked against current standards. Telling the FDA about a new chemical does nothing for the roughly 111 already sitting in my grocery cart.

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