The FDA does not know what chemicals are added to foods A rule concocted in the 1950s for vinegar and spices has had unintended effects. Share. Unknown isle Photograph: Getty Images.

Ms. Belluz is a contributing Opinion writer covering health, nutrition and chronic illness. The health secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., believes toxic chemicals in food are behind the U.S ...

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ROSEMONT, Illinois, May 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to step up safety reviews on chemicals in foods, including one widely used as a preservative in products ...

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This means the chemicals are innocent—and free to enter your diet—until proven guilty. “About 10,000 chemicals have been added to foods, many of them under GRAS,” Trasande says.

The biggest gap in the FDA's oversight of foods goes back generations. In 1958, Congress mandated that, before additives could be used in foods, manufacturers had to prove they were safe and get ...