MedPage Today September 9, 2024
— New food ingredients are a “complete black box,” one expert says
After a ground-beef substitute sickened nearly 400 customers in 2022, an investigation found that the illnesses were most likely from a new ingredient called tara flour, bringing to light an alarming truth: food manufacturers are not required to clear new food ingredients with the FDA.
Because of this, it’s almost impossible to know if a given ingredient added to the food supply is safe, wrote Pieter Cohen, MD, of Harvard Medical School, and Emily Broad Leib, JD, of Harvard Law School, in a perspective in the New England Journal of Medicine.
This recently became even more clear to consumers after over 150 people fell ill from mushroom-containing candy...
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