New board would review older 'safe' food ingredients to protect consumers
This bill would create a special board to review certain food ingredients that manufacturers declared "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) before the year 2000. The board would check if these older ingredients are truly safe. If not, the government could remove them from the food supply, making food safer for everyone.
Today, many food ingredients that manufacturers declared "generally recognized as safe" before 2000 may not have been formally reviewed by the FDA. After this bill, a new GRAS Review Board would systematically review these older designations, categorizing them by priority. Food manufacturers would have 90 days to report these ingredients, and if an ingredient is found not to be safe, its "generally recognized as safe" status could be revoked, with manufacturers given 180 days to provide proof of safety.
HR 7291 · 119th Congress · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 8/10
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