HHS Plans to Close FDA Loophole that Allows Food Companies to “Self-Affirm” Safety of Ingredients
On Mar. 10, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revise a long-exploited loophole that allows food companies to “self-affirm” that their ingredients are safe.1 2 The FDA’s Generally Recognized as Safe, or GRAS, food designation was created by Congress in […]