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Court Suggests Critics Ask Congress To Change FDA's GRAS Rule – Same For NDI Notifications?

 
• By Malcolm Spicer

Federal judge suggests consumer health and environmental advocacy groups made strong arguments about potential for unsafe ingredients in foods available in the US through the self-GRAS process, but FDA adopted and exercises the rule entirely in line with congressional intent of the authorizing legislation.

• Source: Alamy

Critics of the US Food and Drug Administration’s policy for reviewing new dietary ingredient notifications could look for direction in a recent federal court ruling upholding the agency’s rule allowing self-determinations for food ingredients as generally regarded as safe.

In the US District Court for Southern New York, Judge Vernon Broderick stated in a recent opinion and order...

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