The Trump administration's FDA proposed a rule requiring food manufacturers to notify the agency before slipping new additives into the food supply, ending a self-certification system that let companies decide on their own what was safe to eat. Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas announced the proposed rule on Monday, calling it a fix for a […] The post FDA moves to close decades-old loophole letting food makers add ingredients without telling regulators appeared first on American Almanac .
The Trump administration's FDA proposed a rule requiring food manufacturers to notify the agency before slipping new additives into the food supply, ending a self-certification system that let companies decide on their own what was safe to eat. Acting FDA Commissioner Kyle Diamantas announced the proposed rule on Monday, calling it a fix for a gap in federal food oversight that has been widening since the late 1950s. Under current practice, companies can declare a new chemical additive "generally recognized as safe", known by the acronym GRAS, and start using it in packaged food without ever telling the FDA. That voluntary system expanded in 1997, and an estimated 10,000 additives now sit in the American food supply, many of which have…Open
Southwest and other airlines had wanted to begin offering service with the aircraft prior to the pandemic, but the certification faced years of delays resulting from fatal crashes of the Max 8 model, a redesign of the engine anti-icing system and other safety and manufacturing problems.
Silicon Valley's AI moguls are flooding Washington with competing blueprints for superintelligence, clashing over a defining question: Does safety come from spreading powerful AI or containing it? Why it matters: Their fight will shape who gets access to the best models, how America competes with China, and whether the government can slow the race in an emergency. Driving the news: Alarming developments, seemingly by the day, have turned the manifestos from thought exercises into an urgent policy battle. - OpenAI and Anthropic both disclosed that their advanced models went rogue and broke into external systems during cybersecurity evaluations. - Kimi K3 delivered a double shock: The Chinese model not only reached frontier-level…
A New York Times investigation found that President Trump’s push to speed delivery of the aircraft led to ballooning costs and trade-offs in safety features.
The European Commission has imposed its largest-ever fine under the Digital Services Act, citing AliExpress for inadequate measures to prevent the sale of dangerous and counterfeit goods.
PULSE POINTS WHAT HAPPENED: The European Commission fined AliExpress 550 million euros ($629 million) for failing to adequately tackle the sale of unsafe and counterfeit products on its platform. This penalty is the largest issued under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA) to date. DETAIL: European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna Virkkunen said the spread of counterfeit clothing, unsafe toys, dangerous cosmetics, and other illegal products reflected AliExpress’s failure to meet its obligations under the DSA, adding that the company must better identify and mitigate systemic risks regardless of its size. AliExpress claims it remains committed to complying with the DSA and has invested heavily in product safety, risk…Open
Huge flames tore out of the entrance to the venue, which one investigator said had used inappropriate material for soundproofing. More than two dozen people died.
Vape shops in Britain have been a rogue industry for years now, with unlicensed, unvetted proprietors selling dangerous products not just in plain sight, but radiating with the neon glow of dozens of garish window displays. In fact, 90 percent of vapes in the United Kingdom now come from China.These are proving to pose a […]
Vape shops in Britain have been a rogue industry for years now, with unlicensed, unvetted proprietors selling dangerous products not just in plain sight, but radiating with the neon glow of dozens of garish window displays. In fact, 90 percent of vapes in the United Kingdom now come from China. These are proving to pose a threat not just to public health , with teachers and healthcare workers sounding the alarm over a terrifying surge in teenage psychosis linked to illegal, often spice-laced vapes sold to minors , but to the public realm, with an unregistered vape shop in Glasgow causing a fire that gutted a 175-year-old landmark building and shut down Scotland’s largest railway station for over a week this past March. The…Open