The GRAS rule allows food companies to introduce new molecules into food without adequate safety testing.

“the rules to this day are that um you know there's this concept called grass General regarded as safe that food companies can develop new molecules that will preserve a food make a food hyper palatable make it tastier make it more shelf stable whatever whatever they want to claim it does that they can develop molecules they can put these molecules into our food and they can get away with just saying well this is just general regarded as safe without any adequate safety testing whatsoever and the FDA allows that”