The U.S. FDA Finally Deregulates French Dressing The FDA withdrew its 72-year-old regulation 24 years after being asked

[moguldreamer]

The U.S. FDA Finally Deregulates French Dressing
The FDA withdrew its 72-year-old regulation 24 years after being asked

https://dressings-sauces.org/ and https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-s...ng-11642036962

Unbelievably, 72 years ago (1950) the US FDA decided one of the most important things it could do was to regulate the recipe for "French Salad Dressing." Note this isn't regulating the quality control or safety of the mixture, but the actual recipe itself -- the line item list of ingredients required & optional in French Dressing, which the FDA calls "Standard of Identity." Why they couldn't just say "French Dressing recipe" but instead had to label it a "Standard of Identity" is a question lost to the ages.

Please note no such regulation of required & optional ingredients has existed for salad dressings such as Caesars, Italian, Ranch, Russian, Creamy Cucumber, Roquefort or Blue Cheese, but mysteriously, the FDA has regulated the ingredient list in French Dressing since 1950.

The original 1950 recipe approved by the FDA:

"vegetable oil, and a vinegar and/or lemon or lime juice, and could be seasoned with ingredients such as salt, sugar, tomato paste or puree, and spices such as mustard or paprika."

[Debsi]

That is weird!

[Parnassia]

The world as we know it will never be the same...

Not only is the FDA's absurdly delayed response to the request bizarre, but so is the WSJ reporter who felt this was news.

[kell490]

Never liked French dressing maybe it was because of FDA. Doesn't surprise me Government regulators are irrational. Just look at the FAA anyone who has dealt with their Medical certificate system knows how they operate in a different world.