Selected Committee on GRAS

Select Committee on GRAS Substances, Evaluation of the Health Mspects of Certain Silicates as Food Ingredients, SCOGS-61, NTIS Pb 301-402/MS, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, Springfield, Va., 1979, p. 26. 

A comprehensive review of sodium and potassium silicate was conducted by the Select Committee on GRAS Substances of the Life Sciences Research Office, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) for the Food and Drug Administration. It was concluded that... 

In 1979 the Select Committee on GRAS Substances issued an affirmative report (2) [see Safety Reviews above] and industry submitted proposed food grade specifications, but the regulatory process has not yet reached Federal Register publication. 

Database of Select Committee on GRAS Substances (SCOGS) Reviews , http //www.fda.gov/Fond/FondlngredientsPackaging/rTenerallyRecognizedasSafeCiRAS/GRA (accessed 1 August 2015). 

The Select Committee, in a 1977 tentative report (26), did not pass on its safety, feeling it had insufficient information. FDA then commissioned a literature review (28), and, in a 1981 final report, the Select Committee recommended Class I status for sodium metasilicate to the FDA. This was expressed in analogy to the statement on sodium and potassium silicates, quoted on page 2 (29). Codification, the final step in the GRAS affirmation process, could be another two years away. 

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