date:Mar 06, 2019
ed in conventional foods have been approved by private parties but not by the FDA. Many of those private parties have a stake in the sale of those substances and pay scientists to review their products. The GRAS designation was intended to cover ingredients that were widely known to be safe, but the FDA created a loophole and allowed manufacturers to declare other chemicals safe. The FDA doesn't look into the data these industry paid researchers create.
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