food and drug law

FDA’s Worrisome Proposal on Toxins in Food Additives

The official seal of the Food and Drug Administration, featuring a bald eagle above a shield with a serpent-entwined rod, surrounded by the agency name and the date 1906.

Part of it is a move in the right direction. But one provision raises serious questions. 

According to the Guardian news site, a proposed new FDA regulation  will  “expand a controversial loophole to allow some of the world’s most toxic chemicals to be added directly to food without a safety review.”   The proposed regulation does two other, seemingly reasonable, things along with the one that raises real concerns. The worrisome …

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