Pew group points to gaps, weaknesses in FDA's food additives program

摘要

More than 3,000 chemicals that can be added to human food never have been subject to FDA review, but that's just one of many findings in two reports critical of the food additive program published Wednesday by the Pew Health Group's Food Additives Project.Pew plans, by late 2012, to make recommendations to FDA on whether there are scientific or regulatory gaps affecting the FDA food additive program, which might suggest the need for changes that can be made administratively or by Congress, says Erik Olson, food and consumer product safety director for the non-profit policy group.