Health and Human Services Secretary (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “explore potential rulemaking” to tighten a loophole permitting food companies to put chemicals in their products without notifying the nation’s food regulators, The Washington Post reported.

Currently, due to the decades-old loophole, companies aren’t required to tell the FDA when they include some chemicals and substances in their products, meaning there are most likely hundreds of such ingredients added to the food supply without government oversight.

Some foods that came onto the market through this loophole, called GRAS (“generally recognized as safe”) have later raised safety concerns.

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