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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Just doing a short search, 1 in 50 children with autism in Canada, versus 1 in 36 in US.
As long as they don’t touch Drake’s Funny Bones. Chocolate and peanut butter with devils food cake.
I was, I thought obviously, but perhaps not, to hormonal contraception, ie. the pill, which was new at that time.
Radiation is everywhere. Dosage is important and varies inequitably. Want more? Eat a banana!
Must be Evolution!
Actually among the French elite several centuries ago, bhe blind gut of sheep were used as contraceptives. This was probably also used elsewhere although not by the poor. It was still available as a modern product at the time I went through the change, but with no need after that I don’t know the current status of this product.
A huge number of autoimmune diseases (allergies, IBS, Hashimoto, arthritis, multiple sclerosis...) and of course metabollic diseases (diabete, obesity, fatty liver...) have been cured by the carnivore diet, sometimes just in weeks. Just look up on on Youtube the thousands of testimonies from the carnivore communities and from clinicians like Drs Berry, Mason, Unwin, Baker, Westman...
So we KNOW the real culprit of people’s bad health: carbohydrates.
It’s just that people don’t want to give up their disaster diet based on bread, pasta, cakes, candy and fruits so they put the blame on anything else, be it aspartame or BPA yesterday or artificial dyes or microplastics now.
That’s why I despise ignorant fearmongerers like RFK Jr, because by telling people what they want to hear to avoid taking personal responsibilities instead of telling the truth, he is only making their problem worse.
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