In Brief: FDA food additive review
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
FDA food additive review: House Government Reform/intergovernmental relations subcommittee releases report on FDA's food additive petition process Dec. 14, which recommends: holding FDA accountable to review times; increasing FDA use of third-party reviews; and eliminating the current petition backlog within one year. The report also suggests that the "relevance" of the Delaney clause be studied "in view of modern scientific standards so that better distinctions can be made between nominal hazards and actual risk." FDA Commissioner David Kessler said the agency will be releasing a report on "reinventing" food regulation in the near future...