US FDA - Select Committee on GRAS Substances
US FDA - Select Committee on Generally Recognized As Safe Substances (GRAS)
This list provides information from 115 SCOGS reports published between 1972-1980 on the safety of over 370 Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) food substances. The GRAS ingredient reviews were conducted by the Select Committee in response to a 1969 White House directive by President Richard M. Nixon. The SCOGS list includes the United States Code of Federal Regulations (21 CFR) citation for those GRAS food substances that have been codified in the CFR. Many of the SCOGS reports reviewed have more than one GRAS substance and each substance was evaluated and assigned its own individual type of conclusion on safety. The SCOGS Conclusions were made by scientific experts outside of FDA.