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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“ Another useful product banned: Freon, simply because a few fanatics think it’s bad for the atmosphere. Nonsense.”
Actually Freon was banned because DuPont got behind the loonies. Turns out, DuPont was going to lose the royalties because they were going to expire. They were going to lose billions of dollars in revenue from a product that they licensed others to make. They came out and said they were bad people for making such an awful product. But not to worry, DuPont had a new product that replaced the bad one. Look for the new product to be bad when the royalties come to a close.
Candy canes will be all white! (Fine, I don’t eat the nasty things).
The early impact of RFK junior!
Canada’s a train wreck, but they have fruit loops and all kinds of foods like we have that don’t have the food artificial dyes and high fructose corn syrup, for instance, and apparently they’re just as tasty as the adulterated foods we eat. I don’t see a down side too changing up to more healthy alternatives.
Current tense (”don’t”).
They never were.
This food dye crap is all smokescreen.
Wake me when they talk about banning all the E-prefix flavor enhancers, rapeseed and palm oils (a good start).
I for one, am not going to mind not having someone’s little darling jacked up on food dyes inflicted on me.
As I posted elsewhere, Aldi has some cereals, for example, that do not contain artificial dyes or high fructose corn syrup. So, for now, there are affordable options.
I’d wager the Covid vaccine is even worse.
I want some damn mcdonalds fries cooked in beef tallow
I teach PreK. 30 percent of my children are severely autistic. Three other students have other big behavior issues.
I realize that most of you think I am the enemy and that all teachers are horrible, but I truly love kids. I want them to be sucessful and to be nice people.
I do not know the cause of autism, but somebody better figure it out quickly.
” ‘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.”
So, Jim Jones is banning Kool-Aid? Cool.
do we ban peanuts and shellfish next because a relatively few people react poorly to them?
first they came for the colors used in sour gummy worms
then they came for the colors used in makeup
then they came or the colors used in toys
then they came for the colors used in furniture
then they came for the colors used in clothes
and the world became black and white and without joy
There are berries that make fine food coloring but that doesn’t keep the mad chemical scientists employed.
Think of it as equity for colorblind people.
All of a sudden............
And DDT.
Are they trying to steal RFK’s thunder?
No, they should never have that amount of power. This is a law and not a procedure. Congress should make laws and not make legislators.
How quickly would it spoil without added preservatives of some sort. With mega cities getting farm fresh food, year round, for everyone is not likely to happen. Somehow I think many consumers would be revolted by what options were available for preserved foods a couple hundred years ago. Lots of really bad stuff were added to food prior to federal food regulation. We'd be really dumb to undo ALL of it. May be some specific items that need to be reconsidered, but be careful about spurious associations and claims.
RFK Jr. says he had a very large family (true) and didn't know anyone who had autoimmune disease. FALSE! JFK had Addison's disease, which would have killed him had not treatment been discovered just a few years before, and which likely was autoimmune in nature. Now he kept it from the general public and likely from his then young nephew as well, but it was there.
Part of the perceived increase in autoimmune diseases is better recognition, diagnosis and treatment of them now vs unwillingness to discuss them back then. Another part is generally increased life expectancy has left more time for them to develop. And improved communications, the internet, etc lets their awareness, along with a lot of other medical awareness, spread further. As for blaming changes since the 50s and 60s, LOTS have changed beyond food additives. No contraceptives before then, could they be a culprit? We got the lead additive out of gasoline, got the tobacco out of most Americans; could they have been protective? Not much welfare back then, there was actually starvation. Now our 'poor' and most of the rest are quite overweight. Which might well explain many of these 'new' complaints. Now some of the obesity stems from changes in 'food' content and production having made production of too many calories cheap for the first time in history. But change too much of that too quickly and we'll trade all these new alleged, dubiously caused, health problems for the very real and historical one of famine.
As a doctor whose patients have gotten older with him, I see a lot of 90 year olds. There are now a few fat ones and some who have made it past 90 in spite of significant medical problems. All this new fangled medical stuff sometimes actually works and keeps folks alive in spite of such. And loads of folks have managed to achieve reasonably healthy ‘old’ age who would have died of heart disease, been crippled by bad knees, hips, etc. in past times. Staying fit and thin is clearly preferable, although the fat side of me wants to point out all the intentional wear and tear and injuries I’ve dodged by avoiding physical activity. Fit, thin, safe and lucky might be a wiser goal.
RU486 (mifepristone) was tried first. It didn’t kill fast enough. However, what sane person would take it if they knew even that?
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