Posted on 12/07/2024 3:31:12 PM PST by Libloather
The Food and Drug Administration will decide on a ban of certain food dyes in the coming weeks after receiving a petition to review the safety of Red 3, NBC News reports.
“With Red 3, we have a petition in front of us to revoke the authorization board, and we’re hopeful that in the next few weeks we’ll be acting on that petition,” Jim Jones, the deputy commissioner for human foods at the FDA, said during a Senate meeting this week, per NBC.
According to the FDA, the agency has reviewed the safety of Red 3 —which is derived from petroleum and found snacks, beverages, candy and more — in food and drugs “multiple times” since it was first approved in 1969, but the petition has requested for the additive to be reviewed once more.
“With the holiday season in full swing where sweet treats are abundant, it is frightening that this chemical remains hidden in these foods that we and our children are eating,” US Representative Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ), a ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, wrote in a letter to the FDA.
“While food companies must ensure that the food they market is safe, they are also only required to ensure that their products meet FDA’s standards. This means that thousands of products that contain this chemical can remain on the market.”
He argued that there is “no reason” for the additive to be in food “except to entice and mislead customers” to make products appear “more appealing.”
Thomas Galligan, who works at the Center for Science in the Public Interest as a principal scientist for food additives and supplements, echoed a similar sentiment.
“These food dyes only serve one function in food, to make them look pretty...
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RU486 (mifepristone) was tried first. It didn’t kill fast enough. However, what sane person would take it if they knew that?
That’s why I mentioned MAHA. No one would be thinking about RFK however if he had not sided with Trump. This is all about Trump.
I guess we will find out. I don't expect the regulatory state to be the same after Trump takes over. If it is banned, it will be for cause. I think it's best to wait and see what unfolds before getting to too excited over a hypothetical.
I guess we will find out.
I believe you are right, an agency under Trump personnel should be more responsible than under Democrat careerists.
Red 2 Dye was already outlawed. Do they ever outlaw blue dyes?
Bravo. I was ready to post the same thing.
This thread is about red food dye, not things that keep food from spoiling.
Real food can still be frozen, canned, and dried even if it can’t be fresh. There are baking supplies and canned soups.
But I guess it depends on whether you consider pop-tarts, breakfast cereals, Hot Pockets, crackers and cookies, candy, snack foods, and soda, food or not.
America would NOT starve if those items went missing.
Was thinking the same thing. How ironic
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hmmm well, how about that...!
Yes, Canada’s food is healthier. A few years back I was researching nutritional content of canned foods. Their canned foods still retain much more nutrients from the original product that was canned. In comparison ours rates like a waste byproduct after they removed all the nutrients from it and sold then separately.
You say this is only about FDA #3 red food dye, but those targeting it are also often those complaining about how many ingredients are listed for our foods and all the complex chemical names, and then coming for this and that ingredient. Reminds me of "first they came for the Jews", "then they came for the …" in other contexts. I don't trust them. Food police and big green environmentalists, the latter of whom RFK Jr has clearly been, have exaggerated and lied about too many things during my life for me to suddenly trust all they say. There have been lots of "studies" blaming cancer on everything under the sun, many using absurd doses and cancer prone lines of animals. I've learned to demand stronger data. People telling me not to eat things my own senses claim are good annoy me as much as people trying to convince me what my own senses, aided by my own reason, judge as bad are really good. I'm libertarian on self bought food choices. If government wants to protect me from poisons human senses would pass, eg. anti-freeze, I'll skeptically accept their help, but also notice how often they cry 'wolf.' Now if its private or governmental charity giving food to the allegedly needy I'm going to be pickier. No prime steak and caviar, instead boring food to keep them going but discourage staying on the dole. And for the already fat wanting charity I vote a Hippocratic "Do no harm." Maybe putting the morbidly obese on a zero calorie diet is not good for them, but a diet that sheds pounds as fast as health allows with responsible monitoring is. If they don't like it let them fund their own obesity.
Red 3 is prohibited in cosmetics but allowed in food.
You're absolutely right about that. I play senior softball and one friend lost his wife this past year to alzheimer's and she was only in her late 60's. Two other friends gave up the game this year to stay home and care for their wives. A good friend and neighbor just told me that he has been diagnosed with the beginning stages of alzheimer's.
It's more widespread than people believe.
Totally agreed. The hysteria against ‘chemicals’ was in overdrive, now with RFK Jr, it is becoming insane.
People are quick to forget RFK is a green zealot, just because the guy is telling them what they want to hear : that they are fat and sick because of ‘chemicals’. No personal responsibility here, and most of all, no problem with carbs, the biggest killer in the room, yeah sure.
Pretty much by definition, if you are eating a lot of foods with dyes, you are eating a highly processed diet.
Thank you for the voice of sanity.
People are pattern recognizing animals. They are also rationalizing animals.
Give them an excuse which offers an easy fix, and they have to learn the hard way.
People gladly blame “additives”, etc rather than their own actions.
Most of our disease problems are problems brought about by prosperity, cheap food, and longevity as we never had before.
Let us hope so. America will be a better place if so.
Looking pretty is a value people are willing to pay for.
Looking pretty provides joy. People want to be kill-joys because people have been living longer, more disease is noted because of better communications, and we have many diseases of prosperity.
People don't want to blame prosperity, so they blame anything else.
Correlation does not equal causation.
All modernity is correlated with the increases in degenerative diseases, due to increased longevity and increased obesity, brought about by prosperity.
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