Organic Bytes Newsletter #953: Companies Are Using a Loophole to Skip Food Safety Tests - Organic Consumers

Publisher’s Platform: There Is No Premarket Approval for Food, Says the Senior Food Adviser at HHS. Ten Days Earlier His Own Secretary Called the Exception to It a Loophole That Industry Hijacked.

A senior adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services spent this week posting three claims about food safety on X, each one preceded by a red exclamation point and the word FACT. As of Thursday, August 20, 2026, CDC counts 10,930 people sick in the federal Cyclospora outbreak, at least 454 of them hospitalized, two dead, across seventeen states, with illness onsets running from June 14 through August 11. My own fifty‑state tally, built…

Organic Bytes Newsletter #953: Companies Are Using a Loophole to Skip Food Safety Tests - Organic Consumers

Organic Bytes Newsletter #953: Companies Are Using a Loophole to Skip Food Safety Tests SUBSCRIBE | DONATEPROPOSED RULEClose the Loophole That Lets Frankenfoods Escape Safety TestingThe Food & Drug Administration has proposed a rule that would require food companies to give them notice when they intend to avoid safety testing a new ingredient by moving it through a loophole the FDA created known as “Generally Recognized as Safe” (GRAS). Every ye…