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.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday evening directed the Food and Drug Administration to eliminate a loophole in safety rules that allows food corporations to self-affirm that all of their ingredients are safe without providing data to the agency,

U.S. secretary of health and human services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has directed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to revise its Substances Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) Final Rule in an effort to increase oversight of specific food ingredients and heighten food transparency.

The practice Kennedy is targeting, known as “generally recognized as safe,” can occur when companies self-certify the safety of a food additive.

President Trump's top health official wants to overhaul how companies introduce ingredients into the food supply, a move that could alter a decades-old system and address criticism over insufficient oversight.

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

The nation's top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., is taking steps to tighten oversight of chemicals in the U.S. food supply, a key component of his “Make America Healthy Again” agenda. On March 10,

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.

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