Concerns Over GRAS Safety Regulations

Before any new chemical gets added to American food, it should be tested for

safety. That's what we should expect, right?

But instead, they build a loophole into it on day one,

and they call it GRAS, G-R-A-S, which means generally

recognized as safe. The logic they use is that you don't need

clinical trials or a full FDA report on things like table salt,

right? Ingredients with a long established

history of being safe.

Okay, that kinda makes sense. But watch what happens to that loophole.

Let's look at this. This is the FDA GRAS database.

Okay, so we're looking at how GRAS notification

system was formalized in

nineteen seventy-seven. So what happened is the FDA formalizes

this voluntary GRAS notification system, which basically

means a company can now self-certify their own new

ingredient as safe. They can have their own paid scientists

approve it and then put it into your food without notifying the

FDA