Ingredients lists don’t have to be as accurate as they used to be… within reason, hopefully.
However, regardless of what the goal is, the implication could prove a bit more unsettling to some people:
The FDA states that these “minor formulation changes” must still meet specific criteria. Safety is listed first, with the explanation that any ingredient substitutions must “not cause any adverse health effect .” Additionally, other factors like quantity, prominence, health claims, and nutrition/functionally are all addressed. And the changes also can’t remove a “characterizing ingredient”—meaning “for example, omitting raisins, a characterizing ingredient in raisin bread.
The intentions of the new rule make sense: For example, the FDA explains that they are “aware that currently there is a shortage of the bleaching agent used to bleach flour,” so these new rules allow “temporary flexibility for the substitution of unbleached flour for bleached flour without a corresponding label change while there continue to be bleached flour shortages.”
But the timing of announcement—on the Friday before the Memorial Day weekend—along with the fact that these “temporary” changes have no firm end date has added to worries that this move may be the deregulation-prone Trump administration trying to chip away FDA rules not only now, but into the future.
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