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Friday, April 04, 2025
The Food and Drug Administration has proposed banning brominated vegetable oil (BVO) in food after new studies found the ingredient used in some citrus beverages could cause adverse health effects.
A new coalition that includes consumer advocates and major industry groups plans to work with the FDA, as well as policymakers and media, to ensure the agency's new Human Foods Program has the vision and execution required to make needed cultural and organizational changes.
Jim Jones, the FDA's newly designated deputy commissioner of human foods, sees partnering with food industry stakeholders as crucial to accomplishing the food safety goals of the agency.
The U.S. needs a national food strategy that incorporates oversight authorities from the Food and Drug Administration and USDA to better protect the domestic food supply, a former FDA official said Friday.
FDA Commissioner Robert Califf provided additional insight Tuesday on a restructuring of the agency's human foods program that he intends to finalize this fall.
The Food and Drug Administration will use an outside evaluation released Tuesday to help reform its human foods program, FDA Commissioner Robert Califf said following release of the report by the Reagan-Udall Foundation.
A diverse coalition of groups concerned that Food and Drug Administration is giving short shrift to food safety issues is asking FDA Commissioner Robert Califf to create a position that would have authority over food programs.
