Abstract
This paper briefly reviews the general process through which GTC Nutrition Company was able to demonstrate through scientific procedures the safety and naturalness of short-chain fructooligosaccharides (scFOS ®) to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). The result of the successful regulatory petition was an FDA “generally recognized as safe (GRAS) ” status of fructooligosaccharides as a food ingredient and consequently a broader market recognition and acceptance of our short-chain fructooligosaccharides as a functional food ingredient.
