What does GRAS stand for?

Generally Regarded As Safe

This definition appears very rarely and is found in the following Acronym Finder categories:

Science, medicine, engineering, etc.

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Gamma Ray Astronomy Program Working Group (NASA) Generic Reliability Assurance Requirements (Sprint) Graduate Admissions and Records Grand Rapids Association of REALTORS (Grand Rapids, Michigan) Greater Rochester Association of Realtors (New York) Grand Rapids Amateur Radio Association Ground Receiving and Analog Ranging Equipment Generic Reliability Assurance Requirements for Fiber Optic Transport Systems (Sprint) Guardrail Airborne Reconnaissance Low Generally Recognized As Safe		Global Rent-a-Scope (various locations) GNSS (combined GPS and GLONASS positioning systems) Receiver for Atmospheric Sounding Ground-based Regional Augmentation System (Australia) Groupe de Recherche et d'Action pour la Santé Grüne und Alternative Studentinnen (Austrian Green Student's Party) Grasstrack Riders and Supporters Association (UK) Greater Rochester After-School Alliance (New York) Grandparents Rights Association of South Carolina (Easley, SC) Generally Recognized As Safe and Effective Gradient Spin Echo (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)

Samples in periodicals archive:

In December 2008, the Food And drug Administration granted Generally Regarded as Safe (GRAS) status to Rebaudioside A (Reb A), a component of stevia, for use in food and beverages in the U.

Stevia moving closer to use in ice cream

Sunless tanning products are generally regarded as safe alternatives to sunbathing.

Bathing Beauties Vs. Sunless Tanners

The dressing sensor is simple enough to see a food grade blue color collect on the surface of the dressing, inexpensive enough that the components cost less than ten cents, generally regarded as safe (GRAS) to go on your skin or in a wound, and rapid enough to change color in 30 minutes to an hour.

ECI BIOTECH DEVELOPS EXPRESSDETECT FOR PATHOGEN DETECTION

Disappointingly, the author chose to cite only the sections of the USA laws governing drugs and foods (botanicals) generally regarded as safe (GRAS), and cited not a word about the 1996 Dietary Supplements Health Education and Safety Act (DSHEA), under which the herbs monographed in this Compendium are marketed in the USA for more than a decade.

British Herbal Compendium

uk Amalgams are easy to use, durable, and generally regarded as safe.

WALES: My teeth were slowly killing me

GelSite is not an adjuvant and is a member of a family of plant polysaccharides classified by the FDA as Generally Regarded As Safe (GRAS).

DelSite granted United States patent for a wound healing technology ...

In an effort to prevent paediatric HIV infection, with a water supply generally regarded as safe, Botswana recommended replacement feeding by all HIV-positive women, accompanied by provision of a year's supply of free formula.

HIV, AIDS and infant feeding

Natural antimicrobial agents--bioactive compounds derived from biological sources--may be generally regarded as safe (GRAS status).

Natural antimicrobial agents find edible film applications