U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert Kennedy Jr. directed the Food and Drug Administration on Monday to revise safety rules to help eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food ingredients are safe.

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Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. ordered the Food and Drug Administration on Monday to revise its rule allowing food companies to "self-affirm" that its ingredients are safe.

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday directed the Food and Drug Administration to revise its food safety guidance to increase its oversight of food ingredients considered to be safe.

It’s time to revamp the FDA’s “generally recognized as safe,” or GRAS, program that allows companies to add untested ingredients to food, the Health and Human Services secretary says. That may be difficult to do.

The Health Secretary wants to eliminate a provision that allows companies to self-affirm that food ingredients are safe.

For far too long, ingredient manufacturers and sponsors have exploited a loophole that has allowed new ingredients and chemicals, often with unknown safety data, to be introduced into the U.S. food supply without notification to the FDA or the public,

The Health and Human Services secretary is pushing to change a program that allows companies to add untested ingredients to food.