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Delaney clause

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Delaney clause,
a 1960 amendment to the 1938 Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act regulating food additives. It prohibits the use of any food substance found to be carcinogenic in humans or animals. Food products not previously found to be carcinogenic were classified historically as "Generally Regarded As Safe," or GRAS.

Delaney Clause
Public health An addition to the US Food, Drug & Cosmetics Act, prohibiting the use of food additives known to be carcinogenic in experimental animals. See Alar, Ames test, Food & Drug Administration, Risk assessment.


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This portion of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, known as the Delaney clause, dates back to 1958, when technologies for detecting carcinogens picked up only gross contamination.
One of the more controversial elements of the revised pesticide policy is the intended amendment of the Delaney clause -- a 35-year-old provision of the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act that prohibits the sale of processed foods containing greater concentrations of pesticide residues than were present in the raw ingredients (SN: 5/15/93, p.
The result, EPA and certain FDA officials have argued, is that science has gone beyond the Delaney clause (SN: 2/15/92, p.
 
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