Feed substances tracked by US regulators:GRAS and GRAS/E lists updated

摘要

When I first saw the acronym, GRAS, 25 years ago, in reference to actions taken by the Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), I could only think in terms of "grass", a vernacular term for marijuana. (I hasten to add, I was not a user.) I wondered why CVM might be involved with this kind of substance. Prior to that time, I had never heard of an acronym use to designate a feed ingredient as "Generally Recognized as Safe". I suspect that many readers still are not familiar with the acronym, GRAS; and wonder why I am choosing to discuss it now. The answer is that the CVM recently updated (01/13/2015) information on animal feeds ingredients, some of which are used in fish feeds and are "Generally Recognized as Safe".