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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And known to cause cancer as well.
Many food additives have been banned in Europe or come with warning labels, but are used freely here.
Not that I’d want to follow everything Europe does, but our life expectancy is now substantially lower than most developed countries.
No pink lighting in stores here, but I guess it helps to disguise the true state of the fish rotting in the display cases.
I could live with my peanut M & M‘s being white or gray.
I've been 'hearing about' mRNA "vaccines" seems like for years... but it's still legal and in use, and there is a great case against it.
Go figure.
Ah - that makes sense
but even the strong ones are promised 80.
Psalm 90;10
Then I guess our nanny will have to care for us.
diversity
Well, if people want to add poisons to their food, they’re free to do so, but making it the default option for mass produced food that leaves people with little or no choice about options is not right.
The problem is, government and some level of government control is a necessary evil, which is what the Founding Fathers recognized.
If people did what was right and good for others, no oversight would be needed. But they don’t and they let the desire for money override everything else. IIRC, it was snake oil salesmen making false claims about their goods and putting things in them that harmed people that caused the start of all this, like the FDA.
I don’t have a problem with any requirements having companies tell what’s in their foods. ALL of the ingredients, and keeping known toxins out.
Who else do you propose ensures that integrity in food production occurs? Who else would have the authority to enforce compliance?
People claiming concern over such are not a tiny minority, although they may be more vocal than their real numbers. The market recognizes them with 'organic' food sections within many food stores and a variety of specialty sources aiming for their business. It might cost more than buying least common denominator food but it controlled. And you are free to plant your own garden, build your own green house etc. and grow your own however you wish. Most of the traditional crops are the result of centuries of selective breeding to favor desired qualities. GMO, in at least some cases, is essentially the same, just quicker. I enjoy carrots that are orange rather than their original natural purple color. I enjoy tasty soft bananas I can actually digest rather than what existed in the wild. I enjoy diverse breeds of dogs rather than treating wild wolves as lapdogs. Humans can enjoy the environment, but we also can modify it and some of our modifications are good.
I look forward to when we can safely and effectively genetically modify humans to correct genetic diseases. There is a lot of human suffering that could potentially be ended by that, but there is a LOT to learn before it's ready for prime time. The MRNA vaccine technology might be a way to accomplish part of that, but in their current iteration they're not yet ready. Trying to induce production of the entire "spike protein" logically might have increased chances for a successful immunization but also increased chances for side effects. At current state of knowledge trying to immunize to part of the poison rather than have you make all of the poison seems wiser in hindsight. May well have been some evil folks who understood that and stiff pushed it, but less understanding folks in a panic might have more innocently pushed it. Punish the evil ones, forgive the innocent ones but consider moving some innocent fools out of positions where they can do foolish harm again.
Cereals eaten by children may contain this junk.
I just looked up only cereal I eat: Panda Puffs. Organic, no wheat
I assume food producers in Canada make a good profit despite not using all the artificial junk, but probably not what they make here, just like pharmaceuticals. Of course, the Canadian government may subsidize any of the above, there.
back in the 1970’s my grandmother always had a container of saccharine pills for sugar substitute... it stated on the container “this product may cause cancer”...
I watched a couple of Foods That Made America on History.
They said, get this, Fruit Loops cereal contains no fruit.
And I trusted them.
Photo....
Not illegal.
Yet.
Watch for the enormous and powerful counter revolution of they endanger Americans’ beloved foods.
Remember one of the lines in Peggy Sue Got Married (1986) where the Kathleen Turner character travels back in time to the 1950s and tells the 1950s kid “Don’t eat the red ones”?
Years later the companies went back to red dye which was declared safe:
In the past Peggy Sue tells her sister not to eat the red M&Ms as they’re bad for her. This was an inaccurate but common belief among consumers in the 1980s, Peggy Sue’s present and when the film was made, because the food additive Red Dye No. 2 was found to cause tumors in rats. M&Ms never used Red No. 2 and weren’t bad for you, but they removed the red M&Ms from production anyway to avoid scaring consumers who’d heard about the bad red dye from the news. They quietly reintroduced red M&Ms about a decade later.
From IMBD.
Enjoy?
For the COLOR or the TASTE?
Deep rectal itching actually.
We ‘allow’ LOTS of things like that - tabacco, alcohol, christmas tree lights...
I’ll bet there are no Loops being killed for it, either!
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