On March 10, 2025, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that he is ...

It’s time to revamp the FDA’s “generally recognized as safe,” or GRAS, program that allows companies to add untested ...

What Happened: HHS Secretary Kennedy directed FDA to consider removing the current self-affirmation pathway for determining that a food ingredient is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS). Who’s ...

The FDA’s GRAS rule lets companies decide if food additives are safe—without agency oversight. RFK Jr. now aims to close this ...

The U.S. health secretary has vowed to close an FDA loophole that has allowed food companies to self-police the safety of new ...

Through an Order that the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK) ...

Proposals to eliminate the self-affirmed GRAS pathway have sent shockwaves through the food industry. But what do they mean ...

The Health and Human Services secretary is pushing to change a program that allows companies to add untested ingredients to ...

RFK, Jr., is directing the acting FDA commissioner to explore the elimination of the self-affirmed GRAS pathway for ...

Is this the start of RFK, Jr., making good on his promise to transform the food industry? Newly appointed Secretary of Health ...

As the issue of independent review of the food industry’s GRAS declarations emerged, on another food safety issue Beyond ...