Word: fda
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...minimum of two years. Even if the critters die natural deaths, their bodies will still be dissected to see whether any damage can be traced to the additive. If there is any suspicion of cancer, studies may be prolonged to seven years. Testing will cost industry millions. And the FDA needs an additional $1,000,000 a year to check the test methods and data...
Long Way to Market. While this seems simple common sense, it took eight years to persuade Congress to enact a direct reversal of the old law-under which the burden of proof was on the FDA to 1) show that ar additive in food already marketed was dangerous, and 2) get it banned by court order. Need for the new law has been intensified by speeding changes in U.S. food growing, marketing and eating habits: less and less food is grown at home or near the point of consumption; more and more is shipped great distances, takes longer to reach...
...Trade Commission and the Food and Drug Administration occasionally have to step in. FTC allows harmless puffs-"ours is best"-draws the line at "youth-reviving creams" and at any inference that cells can be reborn by potions. Not only are claims sometimes false, but products downright harmful. The FDA recently ordered Ten-Day Press-On Nail Polish off the market in several states after 700 women complained that it made their nails split and break...
Most important, the new rules clamp down hard on the numerous additives used in mass ice-cream making. FDA approves the continued use of such lump-preventing stabilizers as gelatin, locust-bean gum, sodium alginate, guar-seed gum and extract of Irish peat moss. But it frowns on any further use of alkaline neutralizers, e.g., baking soda, which some producers use to sweeten up sour milk and cream, make it palatable. Totally banned: certain acid emulsifiers that make ice cream smooth by breaking down the barrier between fat and water. While approving chemicals that occur naturally in food, FDA rejected...
BREADMAKERS are in a jam with Food and Drug Administration. FDA charged that big Continental Baking Co. falsely labeled its Wonder and County Fair buttermilk brands as enriched breads. Agency will crack down on bakers that puff their breads with excessive health claims...