Requires companies to tell the FDA about food ingredients and regularly check their safety.
This bill would require companies to tell the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) before using new "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) food ingredients. It would also make the FDA regularly recheck the safety of many existing food additives and GRAS substances. This aims to make sure the food we eat is safer.
Today, companies can decide on their own that a food ingredient is "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) and use it without mandatory FDA review or notification. After this bill, companies would have to tell the FDA before using new GRAS ingredients and provide detailed safety data. The FDA would also regularly recheck the safety of at least 10 existing food additives and GRAS substances every three years, starting within three years of the bill becoming law.
HR 4958 · 119th Congress · August 12, 2025 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 10/10
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