NEW YORK: The Food and Drug Administration will consider a petition to revoke the safety status of dozens of processed refined carbohydrates unless food companies can prove they are safe and not contributing to health issues and obesity, US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. said in remarks that aired on Sunday.
He said the FDA would take up a request by former agency Commissioner David Kessler, who asked it last August to remove corn syrup and dozens of other sweeteners and starches from the list of ingredients classified as GRAS, or Generally Recognized as Safe.
“We will act on David Kessler’s petition,” Kennedy told CBS’ “60 Minutes” program. “And the questions that he’s asking are questions that FDA should’ve been asking a long, long time ago.”