date:Mar 18, 2014
. This somewhat paradoxical outcome may be attributed to the nature of the trade secret that is, whether a trade secret is appropriate for a GRAS ingredient may depend upon whether the trade secret relates to the process of creating the ingredient or the actual ingredient itself.
The process is not what goes into the food. What matters is what becomes a component of the food. How you get there, that in itself is not something that is subject to the GRAS review, says Mark Itzkoff, an attorney a