Botanicals History Of Use Should Satisfy Food GRAS Requirements - Hutt
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
More stringent FDA regulation against functional foods containing botanical ingredients is unlikely, attorney Peter Barton Hutt (Covington & Burling) told industry reps Sept. 12.
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