Families Welcome New FDA Policy to Remove Petroleum-Based Food Dyes to Help Lower Chronic Illnesses

New American Prophet ^ | May 16, 2025 | Kathy Athearn

[Rev M. Bresciani]

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced that they are going to phase out all eight petroleum-based food dyes from America’s food supply. This is welcome news to families across the country who see increasingly alarming rates of chronic illnesses in children.

According to FDA Commissioner Marty Makary, 40% of kids in the United States have a chronic medical condition, and one in seven kids is on medication. Studies have shown that petroleum-based food dyes may cause tumors, affect nerve cells, increase hyperactivity, cause allergic reactions, inflammation, and neurobehavioral issues in children.

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TOPICS: Science; Society
KEYWORDS: dyes; food; fooddyes; petroleumbased; safety

[Openurmind]

Starting to have flashbacks of home canned food from when I was a kid. No matter what it was everything was the same shade of tan or gray... If it didn’t have a label you were in trouble trying to identify it. But it tasted fantastic...

[logi_cal869]

Uh-huh. /s

The e-numbered flavor enhancers and other chemicals are far more toxic.

Waiting (but not hoping; other hand filled)...

[BipolarBob]

There does my Red Dye #40, I just know it. Froot Loops and Skittles won’t be the same.

[mfish13]

Almost all of our pharmaceutical products are petroleum based. As are our paints, inks, fertilizers, plastics, etc. Terrible headline. It plays to the Left.

[Socon-Econ]

Part of the modern view that our health problems are all somebody else’s fault (big food, big pharma, the oil companies, the racists, etc.) and that government is going to protect us.

[Sacajaweau]

Not in our house...Tomatoes were red, strawberries and raspberries, too. Cucumbers were green. Peaches were yellow and pears were a very light yellow.