Erythrosine. As a food additive, it has the E number E127.
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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we have a plethora of diet products that have been pushed on the public since the 1970’s that have resulted in the fattest and laziest people in the world...
A guy named Jim Jones is gonna ban red Koolaid. How ironic!
This is a good thing.
Dyes made out of petroleum have no business in food.
I’ll dye if I don’t have my Skittles and Froot Loops.
We should be rightly not so quick to accept a “study.”
Most studies find whatever is the intent of the publisher, aka global warming and their bogus climate models. Another example, one week eggs are bad, the next finding says no issue.
As far as food dyes go, I have never heard of specific issues nor do I know of deaths, illness or other debilitations. I offer myself as a decades old eater of food additives, still going strong.
One more platitude: All things in moderation.
None of us do.
At all.
Kinda looks like an awful lot of cochineal blood ta me.
💯.
Revolutionize?
Everyone is so used to being fat. How’s that going to go over?
Everyone see here- 90-98% have diabetes, hypertension, kidney failure- from both of the above as well as medicinal side effects- morbid obesity, high cholesterol, venous insufficiency. Then there are cardiac patients, COPD in addition to the above
If I ever see a 92 year old which I did today they have none of that or a bit of atrial fib they manage. There are no fat 90 year olds.
wake me up when they ban hfcs
Another useful product banned: Freon, simply because a few fanatics think it’s bad for the atmosphere. Nonsense.
More out of control government.
There were never any cases of autism where I grew up back in the 50's and 60's.
Something has changed since then and one of the primary suspects is red dyes in food.
I have five friends from senior softball who each have an autistic son with varying degrees of autism........Is that a coincidence? I don't know. But in the -past 30 plus years, there has been an alarming rise of autism and ADHD in our children.....
A red dye called *Carmine* IS made from bugs.
It used to be listed as a *natural* dye and can be found in products like yogurt.
Carmine: A Food Colorant Made From Crushed Bugs?!
https://draxe.com/nutrition/carmine/
I understand it’s also used in very dark chocolate products like Black Forest Cake and possibly the Girl Scout thin mints.
One of my daughters broke out in hives the few times she had the really dark chocolate goods, but it was when she reacted to the Girl Scout thin Mints that we figured out that it was probably carmine.
If people just ate real food, there’d be no need for food dyes.
Actually, RFK Jr is the one we can credit with this push.
Erythrosine. As a food additive, it has the E number E127.
He’s been on the improving our food supply bandwagon for some time now.
You can get red food coloring from beets.
It’s not *willy nilly* and just because something has been around for a long time, doesn’t’ mean banning it is safe.
Follow the $$$$.
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