“Almost exactly two years later, we’re here celebrating the most transformative 18 months of food reform in modern American history. The proposed rule would modernize that framework by making GRAS notifications mandatory and expanding the public-facing inventory of submitted notices, significantly improving transparency while strengthening the FDA’s ability to oversee ingredients entering the food supply. “Ninety percent of those expenditures are for people with chronic disease and mental health conditions,” the HHS Secretary said. We cannot spend our way out of a chronic disease epidemic while ignoring the things that are making Americans sick.” Kennedy identified food as the most “powerful weapon that we have in our arsenal to change the trajectory of the chronic disease epidemic.”