Protect New Yorkers from FDA’s Failure: Ban Unsafe Food Additives via A6424A/S6055B - FDA Allows Dangerous Food Chemicals to Remain on the Market

Protect New Yorkers from FDA’s Failure: Ban Unsafe Food Additives via A6424A/S6055B FDA Allows Dangerous Food Chemicals to Remain on the Market The US Food and Drug Administration is the federal agency responsible for ensuring the safety of food additives,i both before and after they come to the market.1 Yet frequently, the agency takes insufficient action to protect consumers, even when safety ri. [...] iv Estimates were generated from the US Department of Agriculture’s Branded Food Products Database; we searched the database on 23 February 2024 for each chemical to determine the number of US products listing each chemical as an ingredient, and we then divided these counts by the total number of US products in the database (449,787 products). [...] v All approved food additives in the EU are listed in Annex II of the European Commission’s food additive regulation. [...] 12 REGULATION (EC) No 1333/2008 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 16 December 2008 on food additives. [...] 3 for Use in Cosmetics and Externally Applied Drugs; Withdrawal of Petition for Use in Cosmetics Intended for Use in the Area of the Eye.