date:Jun 11, 2015
orings to be used in food, and overturn the industrys 1974 self-approval of the eighth synthetic flavor which they assert can be used under a loophole in the law for chemicals that are Generally Recognized as Safe, or GRAS.
Second, the groups urge FDA to formally ban the eight flavorings from use in food, which were allowed on the market long before animal studies showed that the chemicals cause cancer.
Each of the synthetic flavorings has been found by the National Institutes of Healths Natio