Ensuring Safe and Toxic-Free Foods Act of 2022
Summary
Ensuring Safe and Toxic-Free Foods Act of 2022 This bill requires the Food and Drug Administration to incorporate certain requirements into its regulations about Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) food substances, including specific restrictions on substances that cause cancer or human reproductive or developmental toxicity. The bill also establishes an Office of Food Chemical Safety Reassessment to reassess the safety of GRAS and other specified substances.
Bill status
in committee
1 of 4 stages cleared
Introduction
May 2022
Committee Review
Floor Vote
President
Introduced May 26, 2022
Last action May 26, 2022
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2
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Committee
1
May 26, 2022
Senate · Referred to committee
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
May 26, 2022
Senate · Introduced
Introduced in Senate
1 primary · 3 co-sponsors
Sponsors
Role
Legislator
Party
State
District
P
Edward J. Markey
DDemocratic
Co
Cory A. Booker
DDemocratic
Co
Elizabeth Warren
DDemocratic
Co
Richard Blumenthal
DDemocratic
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