FDA cannot act on its own to get all of the information it needs to ensure the safety of all chemicals and substances added to food, so Congress should intervene and require manufacturers to provide information on those substances to FDA, much like pesticide manufacturers report data to EPA, according to the Pew Charitable Trusts. In a 28-page capstone report, Fixing the Oversight of Chemicals Added to Our Food (http://bit.ly/17iYEal), released yesterday, Pew concluded its three-year project reviewing the agency's food additive petition and generally recognized as safe (GRAS) programs, which resulted in several papers published in peer-reviewed journals and a number of workshops that featured representatives from the food industry, academia and FDA alike.
Source: Food Chemical News, November 08, 2013
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