Food safety & additive regulation

Food safety and additive regulation covers FDA oversight of food additives, the GRAS loophole, food warning labels, artificial sweetener safety reviews, and school nutrition standards. The FDA moved to close the GRAS loophole allowing food additives to enter the market without federal notification, while Indian health activists filed court challenges to food warning label proposals.

The UK government issued first national screen time guidelines for children under five, and Arkansas implemented a SNAP ban on candy and soda purchases despite a federal court ruling against similar measures. Reckitt's Mead Johnson won a federal bellwether trial over preterm infant formula safety.