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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced on July 14, 2025, that it is extending the public comment period on its proposed method for ranking chemicals in the food supply by 30 days, to August 18, 2025. As...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a new initiative to systematically review the safety of chemicals already in the nation's food supply....more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) March 2025 publication of its new “Chemical Contaminants Transparency Tool” spotlighted a lesser-known aspect of FDA’s regulation of pesticide residues on food: action levels....more
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have announced actions to phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes from foods in the U.S. food supply. In a news release, FDA said...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final guidance for industry titled Action Levels for Lead in Processed Food Intended for Babies and Young Children (Final Guidance). The final action levels apply only to...more
Mandatory testing of talc-containing cosmetic products is coming. At the end of December, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed a cosmetics rule and test method for asbestos in talc that was required under Section...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is not the only federal agency that regulates per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS). And states aren't the only ones scrutinizing PFAS in food packaging products. PFAS,...more
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), industry, policymakers, and consumers share a common goal of ensuring that the foods and beverages Americans eat and drink are safe, and the law has long prohibited the...more
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a press release on January 26 announcing a countrywide import alert on all alcohol-based hand sanitizers manufactured in Mexico due to their potential methanol content. The press...more
On March 5, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) simultaneously published its independent testing results confirming the presence of asbestos in certain cosmetic products sold by Claire’s and by the girls'...more
The use of beauty products is “an understudied source of environmental chemical exposures” with a disparate effect on women of color, George Washington University and Occidental College researchers argue. Ami R. Zota, et al.,...more
On January 4, 2016, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule amending its food additive regulations to no longer allow the use of three specific perfluoroalkyl ethyl-containing food contact substances...more