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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These food dyes only serve one function in food, to make them look pretty
so food will now look like bugs ? LOL
Idk, pal. May be bad, may be not. If they can make the case, fine. But be careful what you ask for.
As I posted, I don’t want the new FDA to operate as the current EPA - pushing out laws via regulations.
Ok fine. FDA can ban makers from putting it in food for sale. People like you can go buy the stuff on Amazon and add it in yourself.
I wonder how many kids can come off Adderal and not be misdiagnosed with ADD or ADHD if they clean up the food supply.
I know what artificial vanilla flavor used to do to my son. It was so dramatic that it was easy to figure out. I did my own baking and always used natural vanilla.
Vanilla Extract is also easy to make. I find rum gives it the best aroma, better than vodka.
Here’s a great place I found to get very fresh and relatively inexpensive vanilla beans.
Slofoodgroup - https://www.slofoodgroup.com/
—> For my part, willy nilly banning of food dyes that have been aroung for many decades sounds the same as banning drilling, fracking that have also been around for decades.
Maybe you can get a travel pack of dyes to keep in your purse and add to your foods?
People flip out about giving red sugar water to hummingbirds because of the color, but for kids, it’s OK.
Go figure.
This article may be little more than the fevered imagination of the article publisher. The internet is known for whipping up instant controversy!
“ They didn’t seem to be very concerned about strange additives in vaxxes...”
…yeah. Funny how life works with adults in charge
The Internet would be arguing over banning asbestos or lead in paint or lead in gasoline.
True, but it’s not as vibrant.
And people like pretty.
Ah, but the next best source of red food coloring is bugs. Cochineal beetles.
Cue the corporation / almighty dollar worshipping “conservatives” saying “if you don’t want toxic dyes in your food then start your own cereal and candy companies”....
If people want to poison themselves, they can have at it.
The controversy about food dyes is NOT a recent thing. It’s been going on for years.
It’s just been buried by the people who have the most to gain from using them.
Maybe this is a payoff to Mexico , the source of the “all natural” cochineal beetle red dye, whose cochineal production is on its last legs because producers cannot compete with inexpensive “artificial” red colorings.
I’ve been ‘hearing about’ red dye #3 seems like forever...but it it’s still legal and in use, I guess there was not much of a case against it?
“willy nilly banning of food dyes that have been around for many decades... “
The same decades that Americans’ lifespans deceased maybe?
Jim Jones? Red dye?!
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