Posts Tagged ‘chemicals in food’

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Will This Business-Friendly Administration Restrict GRAS?

March 16, 2025 — A regulatory detail deep within the thicket of FDA rules is getting sharp attention. This week, HHS Secretary RFK Jr. asked FDA to find a way to restrict something called GRAS. That stands for generally recognized as safe. Right now, a food company can “self certify” that a chemical food additive is GRAS. Then they […]

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14,000 Chemicals in Food Packaging, 3,601 Enter Our Bodies

September 21, 2024 — A new study this week gives us pause for concern about the chemicals entering our body from food packaging. Some of them are endocrine disrupting chemicals that can alter the way our body stores fat. Researchers inventoried a total of 14,000 chemicals in contact with food from packaging and found evidence for 3,601 of them […]