The agency's top food officials announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration plans to re-examine its approval of the safety of so-called "yoga mat" chemicals, announced Thursday by the agency's top food officials, which may be a bread ingredient in the United States but is banned in Europe.
The FDA, also known as Azodicarbonamide, has previously approved the use of cereal flour and improve the use of bread dough.
Advocates have criticized the chemical for years for the use of it in food, a concern about its potential health risks. The nickname for "yoga mat" comes from other uses of ADA in plastic and rubber manufacturing.
In Europe, This is illegal To add ingredients to the bread, given that it may lead to a carcinogen called halves, which is broken down into other chemicals during the making of the bread.
After international health authorities have raised concerns about the use of food in recent years, the UN convened committee has withdrawn previously allowed guidance for fear that there is not enough data to support its security.
The FDA has previously said that in the study of how many semi-arctic nitrogen a half-palm Americans may be eating, it believes that azide aminoamides can still be added to food safely. The agency said some mice's studies found that semi-arctic nitrogen could cause tumors, but only at "far more than" estimates of how people eat through bread and other foods.
The agency plans to add its priority list of food additives to a new safety review, including BHT and BHA, some of the food uses authorized in Europe, but is concerned about the risk they may cause cancer.
Kyle Diamantas, the acting deputy commissioner for the FDA’s Human Food Program, announced news about the review of ingredients that are prioritized, saying he will further strengthen the review of previously approved food chemicals.
"The plan will include the creation and production of modern evidence-based priorities programs to review chemicals currently in the food supply and will comment to the public later this month," Diamantas said.
The Food Restoration Newsletter previously reported that the plan will be released soon.
Diamantas also said that the details of the agency's systematic review of chemical safety in food supplies will be completed soon after the Biden administration first proposed a more formal approach last year.
"It is well known that there were meetings last year and we ended up post-market review process frameworks," Diamantas said at a Food Safety Summit meeting on Thursday.