A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Secretary increased flexibility in issuing regulations regarding food additives.

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Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to issue a regulation allowing the use for a period of not more than five years, of a food additive which is a sugar substitute for which there is no adequate replacement and whose benefits to the public outweigh the risks and permits the Secretary to either (1) require a warning label revealing any increased risk of cancer; (2) require such food additive to be dispersed only upon written or oral prescription; or (3) ban the use of such food additive.

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 21 March 1977

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