FDA’s Plan to Evaluate Chemicals in Food Seen as Lacking Details

Concerns with the FDA’s proposed framework for assessing chemicals in foods already on the market are adding to unease around the agency’s current regulatory practices for food safety.

The Food and Drug Administration’s proposal for reviewing chemicals in food at the post-market stage is spurring some environmental and food groups to urge the agency to review its current actions for regulating food additives and substances.

The draft—for which the agency is accepting comments until December—comes amid the FDA’s largest reorganization, which formed the new Human Foods Program led by Deputy Commissioner Jim Jones. The FDA has faced criticism over ...