GRAS FLAVORING SUBSTANCES 22

摘要

The 22nd publication by the FEMA Expert Panel presents safety and usage data on 185 new generally recognized as safe flavoring ingredients and describes an approach to assessing the safety of natural flavor complexes. The GRAS program was established to respond to the provisi6n in the 1958 Food Additives Amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetics Act—Public Law 8S-929, 72 Stat. 1784 (1958), codified at 21 USC Section 348 (1988)—that exempted from food additive status those substances "generally recognized by experts qualified by scientific training and experience to evaluate its safety, as having been adequately shown through scientific procedures ... to be safe under the conditions of intended use." Based on this provision, substances "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) by the FHMA Expert Panel are not considered to be food additives, and are excluded from mandatory premarket approval by the Food and Drug Administration (Hallagan and Hall, 1995).