The Food and Drug Administration and the US Department of Health and Human Services have announced a ban on all petroleum-based synthetic food dyes beginning in 2026
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Not poor journalism, re- read the first sentence. RFK is working with the food industries giving them time to fix their poison problems.
HHS, FDA to Phase Out Petroleum-Based Synthetic Dyes in Nation’s Food Supply
For Immediate Release:
April 22, 2025
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced a series of new measures ***to phase out **** all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply—a significant milestone in the administration’s broader initiative to Make America Healthy Again….
I may be splitting semantic hairs but they have announced that they, with cooperation from the food industry, measures to phase this stuff out. That is not the same as an announced ban.
Well reading this I think maybe I am splitting semantic hairs. But in my mind somebody standing at a Podium and saying we are mandating that the food industry eliminate this this and this by this date is what constitutes a ban