A key part of America’s food safety system is the Generally Recognized as Safe framework, which for decades has provided a safe, efficient, and effective regulatory pathway for food ingredients and packaging, making the U.S. a world leader in innovation.

Manufacturers across the food and beverage supply chain work every day to deliver safe, nutritious, and affordable products to American families. Our nation’s reliable food supply depends on consistent, uniform federal oversight. However, states are increasingly pursuing their own ingredient bans and labeling requirements without understanding the true breadth, scope, and impact of these proposals.

Manufacturers across the U.S. food and beverage supply chain—who play a vital role in ensuring Americans have access to safe, nutritious, and affordable food—support smart, transparent labeling requirements that are science-based and implemented with proper and robust stakeholder input at the federal level.

Every day, manufacturers across the food and beverage supply chain bring safe and nutritious food from farms to factory floors to families’ kitchen tables across America. Food affordability is shaped by many factors, including how food is regulated and how those regulations are designed and implemented.

Manufacturers across the food and beverage supply chain work hard every day to provide safe and nutritious products that are affordable and accessible to all Americans. From small, family-owned companies to some of the world’s biggest brands, manufacturers support and enable nutrition policies grounded in sound science that help Americans eat well and stay healthy.