Achieving Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) status is a critical milestone in food and ingredient safety. This status assures consumers, regulatory authorities, and industry stakeholders that a product or ingredient […] Read More >>
Food additives are subjected to premarket review by the FDA, although an exemption applies if a petitioner can demonstrate that an ingredient is Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) under its […] Read More >>
To be used in foods and dietary supplements, ingredients must: be determined to be Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS), be approved as a New Dietary Ingredient (NDI), be considered an […] Read More >>
As the regulatory landscape continues to evolve for the nascent CBD-hemp industry in the USA, many have questioned whether cannabidiol (CBD) the non-psychoactive component naturally occurring in hemp is generally […] Read More >>
  June 2015 – FDA announces Partially Hydrogenated Oils (PHOs) are no longer GRAS. Industry has until June 28, 2018 to remove from products In November 2013, FDA posted a […] Read More >>
The deletion of “magnesium salts of fatty acids” from the Codex International Numbering System (INS) had been proposed at the 42nd Session of the Codex Committee on Food Additives, 2010. […] Read More >>