Industry user fees could fix a food safety loophole for FDA

By Kelly Brownell. Originally published on WFPC Sanford on August 25, 2025.

Join Kelly Brownell from Duke University in this eye-opening episode of the Leading Voices in Food podcast. Kelly interviews Jennifer Pomeranz, Associate Professor of Public Health Policy at NYU, and Emily Broad Lieb, Director of the Harvard Law School Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation. They discuss the GRAS loophole in FDA regulation that allows unsafe food ingredients to bypass scrutiny, the health risks associated, and their innovative proposal for a user fee program to improve food safety.

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