The Food and Drug Administration lets companies self-report whether a chemical they add to food is safe. That may be changing with the Trump Administration.
When Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced last week that he is directing the U.S. Food and ...
KFF Health News journalists made the rounds on national and local media recently to discuss topical stories. Here’s a ...
Joseph Borzelleca published a study on the food coloring Red No. 3. The FDA cited his work when banning the additive in ...
The Health and Human Services Secretary directed the FDA to consider eliminating a pathway that allowed companies to "self-affirm" whether their ingredients are safe for consumption.
The FDA’s GRAS rule lets companies decide if food additives are safe—without agency oversight. RFK Jr. now aims to close this ...
Sixteen years ago today, on March 14, 2009, President Barack Obama addressed the nation with a clear and urgent message: Food safety is not ...
The Health and Human Services secretary is pushing to change a program that allows companies to add untested ingredients to ...
Now, in office, Kennedy, also known as RFK Jr., has directed the FDA to revise safety rules to help eliminate a provision ...
Kennedy said the move is intended to improve consumer safety by increasing transparency in what is in the food people consume, especially ultraprocessed foods.
Operators and retailers are undertaking FSMA pilots with RFID tags on products packed into cases, which then serves as the ...
Time is running out on meeting rules from both food safety agencies; here’s what you need to be working on this year.