Will GRAS Loophole Be Closed?
The U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is weighing proposals that would close or tighten the so-called GRAS loophole. GRAS stands for Generally Recognized As Safe.
Manufacturers have been using a variety of dyes under the GRAS loophole, since 1958, without securing formal approval from the Food and Drug Administration, a unit within the Health and Human Services Department. “That loophole was hijacked by the industry and it was used to add thousands upon thousands of new ingredients into our food supply,” Kennedy says.
He wants to apply the brakes to the loopholes not only as a tool to make foods safer to eat, but also to help reduce obesity and other problems. Here’s more from M.J. Truth.
