date:Aug 25, 2016
be unbiased.
In 2010, CPI took a look at the makeup of expert panels commissioned by industry to look at the safety of proposed GRAS substances and found that companies often select reviewers from a small pool of scientists, several of whom had prior industry interests. Of the 379 panels that had reviewed GRAS substances over 17 years, CPI found that at least one from a heavily relied-upon group of ten scientists had served on 75 percent of the panels. Four out of those ten individuals had ser