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FDA Issues a Final Rule on Substances Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) for Their Intended Use in Food
August 17, 2016, Covington Alert
This morning, August 17, 2016, FDA published in the Federal Register its final rule on substances generally recognized as safe (GRAS) for their intended use in food. Coming nineteen years after the proposed rule, under which industry has effectively been operating for some time, the final rule mostly codifies the status quo. The final rule formalizes, through regulation, the voluntary notification program that has been running as an interim pilot for nearly two decades. It also modernizes the regulations in a few key respects, sweeping out obsolete provisions about a GRAS petition process that is no longer used and replacing them with a description of the voluntary GRAS notification procedure already familiar to the food industry.
November 17, 2017, Covington Alert
Earlier this week, FDA issued a long-anticipated draft guidance on best practices to follow when convening an expert panel to evaluate whether a substance is “generally recognized as safe,” or GRAS, under the conditions of its intended use in food.
August 25, 2016
Earlier this week, FDA released five chapters of a multi-chapter draft guidance on hazard analysis and risk-based preventive controls for human food. The long-awaited draft guidance is intended to help industry comply with certain requirements of the agency’s final rule for preventive controls for human food (PC rule) under the Food Safety Modernization Act ...