To provide the Food and Drug Administration needed authorities to carry out its regulatory mission with respect to human foods, to provide additional resources and authorities with respect to human foods research, and for other purposes.

Summary

Creates a package of FDA-focused actions to boost nutrition and food-innovation research, strengthen food safety and transparency, and improve coordination between nutrition and medicine. It calls for a dedicated account to fund grants and projects, a permanent advisory committee, a center linking food and drug policy, and competitive research grants led by FDA and NIH. Also exempts voluntary FDA research data collection from the Paperwork Reduction Act, requires manufacturers of processed foods (excluding farms and restaurants) to make recipe-level ingredient records available and to submit undisclosed ingredients for public posting, and directs FDA to form partnerships and report on chemicals in food-contact materials.

• Creates a dedicated Human Foods Innovation funding account to support FDA nutrition and food-innovation activities.
• Establishes a permanent Advisory Committee on Human Foods to advise FDA on science, nutrition, and safety.
• Authorizes competitive grants (FDA and NIH) for research on biotechnology, infant/maternal nutrition, ultra-processed foods, supplements, and related topics.
• Creates an FDA center of excellence to coordinate food-as-medicine work where food and drug policy overlap.
• Exempts voluntary FDA research information collection from the Paperwork Reduction Act.
• Requires processed-food manufacturers (excluding farms/restaurants) to provide FDA access to recipe-level ingredient records and to submit undisclosed ingredients for public posting.
• Directs FDA to form partnerships on food-packaging chemicals and report to Congress within 18 months and annually.
• Expands FDA authority and industry reporting/transparency obligations, which may raise trade-secret and compliance concerns.