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Environmental Defense Fund
Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity
- AGR-1.3: The Center for Food Safety and the Environmental Defense Fund challenged FDA's 2016 GRAS rule in the Southern District of New York. According to the Congressional Research Service, the court granted summary judgment to FDA because FDA's reading of the Act was reasonable, and the plaintiffs did not appeal.
- AGR-1.6: A study of the 403 GRAS notices FDA filed from 2015 to 2020 found that seven people held 46 percent of the 732 panel positions and found no evidence that panels followed FDA's guidance on convening them. The Environmental Defense Fund funded the study, and EDF was a plaintiff in the 2016 challenge to FDA's GRAS rule.
- AGR-1.11: FDA's proposed rule of 11 August 2026 would require GRAS notices for substances purported to be GRAS, with a one-year streamlined submission for substances already on the market. The rule creates no premarket approval, lets companies market a substance before notifying and while FDA reviews the notice, and makes failure to notify "a factor" in FDA's prioritization for post-market review.
Exhibits naming this entity
- Exhibit 565 6 September 2023. Matouskova K, Neltner TG, Maffini MV (Environmental Defense Fund; independent consultants): Out of balance: conflicts of interest persist in food chemicals determined to be generally recognized as safe (Environmental Health 22:59)
- Exhibit 572 5 October 2026. Congressional Research Service: Food Additives and GRAS Substances: A Legal Framework (CRS Legal Sidebar LSB11445)