A bill to amend the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Secretary increased flexibility in issuing regulations regarding food additives.

Amends the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act to authorize the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare to issue a regulation allowing the use for a period of not more than five years, of a food additive which is a sugar substitute for which there is no adequate replacement and whose benefits to the public outweigh the risks and permits the Secretary to either (1) require a warning label revealing any increased risk of cancer; (2) require such food additive to be dispersed only upon written or oral prescription; or (3) ban the use of such food additive.