Effective regulatory approval process for food ingredient technologies.
Most sciences and technologies related to food safety have advanced exponentially over the 40 years since passage in the U.S. of the Food Additive Amendment of 1958 to the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act. Effective regulatory decision making places a high premium on competent professional and administrative judgement applied to sound scientific data. This review discusses changes and lessons learned in the food safety sciences over the last 4 decades. Other segments of the safety and compliance infrastructure necessary to assure that the public receives safe and wholesome foods have not kept pace with the new scientific knowledge. The quality of foods in our marketplace can be improved only after the regulatory and legislative segments of the infrastructure, discussed in a companion symposium paper, are brought into better synchrony with the sciences.
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D000383:Agriculture; D005503:Food Additives / Q000737:chemistry / Q000633:toxicity; D005504:Food Analysis; D005515:Food Labeling; D005524:Food Technology / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007881:Legislation, Food; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D014481:United States; D014486:United States Food and Drug Administration
D005503:Food Additives