This report states that the amazing advances in analytical methods have made the Delaney Clause hopelessly obsolete and it should be repealed. The Delaney Clause, which states that no amount of cancer-causing substances can be added to our food, should be replaced with a “de minimis” concept. Author: F. J. Francis, University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
CC1992-1, April 1992, 23 pp., Available free online and in print (fee for shipping/handling).
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