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Safety of Food Supply Threatened by FDA Spending Freeze
Food safety experts in and outside the agency agree that the food program’s budget was already inadequate to carry out the amount of oversight required even before the new administration took over this year. Indeed, some of the budget cuts to outbreak rapid response teams now going into effect were first proposed under the previous administration’s FDA, says Steven Mandernach,…
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FDA Bans Red Dye No. 3 From Food
Food safety experts have expressed concern that so many of the products containing the dye are marketed to children, who are especially vulnerable to developmental harm. The FDA estimates that children ages 2 to 5 in the U.S. consume twice as much Red Dye No. 3 as the rest of the American public, by body weight. In 2022, Consumer Reports…
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FDA Proposes New Limits for Lead in Baby Foods
Action levels are not mandatory limits, but the FDA may consider a food to be adulterated if it exceeds those levels, which could lead it to take various enforcement actions. “The FDA estimates that these action levels could result in as much as a 24 to 27 percent reduction in exposure to lead from these foods,” said the agency’s commissioner, Robert…
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Oral Decongestant Phenylephrine Will Be Pulled From Market, FDA Says
We may earn a commission from links on this page. Phenylephrine is both the most common decongestant on pharmacy shelves, and arguably the worst at its job. If you’ve ever bought something like Sudafed PE (instead of asking for the original formula Sudafed that they keep behind the counter), you know the stuff. Last year, the FDA’s advisory panel ruled…
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