Congress must step in and block the FDA's proposed expansion of the "threshold of regulation" (TOR) exemption before it allows toxic chemicals to be added directly to our food without any safety review. This isn't a technicality — it's a backdoor that would let companies slip hormone disruptors, neurotoxins, and "forever chemicals" into our groceries as flavorings, preservatives, and processing aids, with zero accountability to consumers.
We already have a warning sign. A 2005 TOR exemption allowed the rocket fuel chemical perchlorate into grain storage bags, and the FDA's own 2017 data showed it ended up in kids' cereal at higher levels afterward. Perchlorate interferes with thyroid function and is linked to lower IQ scores in children. The FDA reapproved it anyway. Now the agency wants to widen this same loophole — and bury the expansion inside a rule that RFK Jr. publicly celebrated as making food safer. That is not making food safer.
The FDA was built to protect Americans from exactly this kind of industry-driven regulatory erosion. Science does not support the idea that tiny doses of endocrine disruptors are harmless — independent experts say so plainly. Americans want stronger food safety protections, not weaker ones. Pass legislation that closes TOR and requires full safety review for any substance added to food, directly or indirectly.
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