FDA Posts GRAS Database Online

FDA and the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN) recently posted its Select Committee on GRAS Substances (SCOGS) Database Overview online. The database allows access to opinions and conclusions from 115 SCOGS reports published between 1972 and 1980 on the safety of over 370 food substances generally recognized as safe (GRAS).

The SCOGS database allows users to search for the SCOGS opinion and conclusion, and includes the United States Code of Federal Regulations citation for GRAS food substances that have been codified in the CFR. Many of the SCOGS reports reviewed more than one GRAS substance and each substance was evaluated and assigned its own individual type of conclusion on safety.

In addition to the SCOGS database, the new pages include a History of GRAS and SCOGS, as well as an Alphabetical List of SCOGS Substances. The SCOGS conclusions were made by scientific experts outside of FDA. The complete background of the Select Committee is described in the History of GRAS and SCOGS.

To access the database and all associated pages, see http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/%7edms/opascogs.html.