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Flamine ‘hot cheatos’s fluorescent red, mountain dew Baja blast and colorful rainbow rainbow of Scolds may soon be slow.
The Food and Drug Administration is phasing out by the end of next year, phasing out the use of petroleum-based synthetic dyes, the agency announced on Tuesday.
“For the past 50 years, American children have been rapidly living in a toxic soup of synthetic chemicals,” FDA Commissioner Marti Makeri said at a press conference.
Food and beverage companies use additives such as red dy 40 to give bright colors to grains, chips, sports drinks and other products that attract shopkeepers. But the backlash against artificial colors has been going on in the US for more than a decade.
Changes will affect a group of food veterans, including PepsiCo, General millsMars and WK KelogThe industry has argued that claims about the dangers of artificial colors lack evidence that will support any restriction.
Till Tuesday, the FDA and the food industry do not have a formal agreement to remove artificial dyes, but “a understanding”, Health Secretary Robert F. According to Kennedy Junior, it is not clear what enforcement action will the agency take if food and beverage companies are not complied with.
“There are many devices at our disposal,” said Makri. “I believe in love, let’s start in a friendly way and see if we can do this without any legal or regulatory changes, but we are searching for every tool in the toolbox to ensure that it happens very quickly. And they want to do so – so go to a complex road with Congress?”
The FDA is taking several tasks, in which the “national standard” for the food industry and the timeline from petroleum-based food colors to infection in natural options, according to Makari. The agency within the coming weeks, not in production, in which a process is starting to cancel the authority of synthetic food colors, not in production.
He said that the FDA is also eliminating the remaining six synthetic colors on the market from the US food supply by the end of the year, especially red dye 40, yellow dye 5, yellow dye 6, blue dye 1, blue dye 2 and green dy 2. It is also requesting food companies to phase the red dye at the end of next year.
He said, “For companies that are currently using petroleum-based red dye, try watermelon juice or beet juice. Currently try carrot juice,” he said, “he said.
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marthi Makeri conducted a study from the lenset during the announcement of FDA’s intention to phase out the use of petroleum-based synthetic color in the country’s food supply during a press conference in the Department of Washington, DC, US, Health and Human Services in the Department of Health and Human Services on the Health and Human Services Department.
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Makri said that the agency plans to authorize four additional color additives using natural ingredients in the coming weeks, while other natural components are also intensifying review and approval of colors.
Makri quoted Lancet study It concluded that the artificial color in the diet “has increased the increase in results.”
“FDA stands for F food,” he said. “Now, there is no component that eats the child’s chronic disease for epidemic. And let’s be honest, taking petroleum-based food colors from food supply is not a silver tablet that will immediately make American children healthy, but it is an important step.”
Last month, Kennedy Told food officials told Removing artificial colors from the food system is an essential priority of Trump administration. Those attending the meeting included PepsiCo North America, Craft Hanz, General Mills, Tyson Foods, WK Kelog, JM Smocker and Consumer Brands Association, CEO of the industry’s top trade group.
Kennedy has used the fruit loops of the kelog as its primary example, when the railing against artificial colors.
Although it is unclear how the removal of the dyes can affect the businesses of the companies, this will be a major effort to overhaul the recipes – and the new look can affect how consumers see the products.
Makari said that excluding petroleum-based food colors will increase food prices, pointing to other countries that have made similar tricks. However, synthetic dyes are generally more cost -effective than natural options, which often require large amounts to achieve vibrant colors and can carry high production costs according to some Reports And A natural component manufacturer,
Earlier, pushbacks from consumer advocates inspired some companies to turn their formulas and release artificial colors without any government intervention. In 2015, Craft Hanz The recipe of your trademark Mac and Paneer changed to use the same natural colors found in the European version of the product.
But changes do not always stick. In 2017, General mills reverse The course, its artificially colored tricks put the grain back on the shelves. Naturally dyed grains, in which turmeric, radish and purple carrots were used, it was not so vibrant, and customers rejected the new version.
Kennedy is $ 1.7 on top of trillion agency It oversees food and tobacco products, Vaccine And other medicines, scientific research, public health infrastructure and government -funded health care. After just two months on the job, he has changed the country’s federal health agencies a lot.
Robert F., Secretary, US Health and Human Services (HHS). Kennedy, Junior Washington, DC, US, Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (CDC) on April 16, 2025 leave the stage after discussing the findings of the latest autism and developmental disability monitoring (ADDM) network survey centers.
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In March, he announced Scheme of To slash 10,000 full -time employees in various departments and to integrate divisions. They have cut back important parts of HHS, including offices handling HIV prevention efforts and work Remove health care inequalitiesFood and drug administration is also Suspend a quality control program Reuters said on Tuesday to test fluid milk and other dairy products due to low capacity in their food safety and nutrition division.
Kennedy’s so -called Make America Healthy Again platform argued a corrupt alliance of drugs and food companies and federal health agencies regulating federal health agencies are making Americans less healthy. He has promised to eliminate the epidemic of chronic disease in children and adults, and has been vocal about it. NourishingInstead of drugs, central for that goal.
In January, before taking over by President Donald Trump or Kennedy, Food and Drug Administration Its authority canceled Red no. A type of red food dye called 3. The dye is known to cause cancer in the laboratory animals, but food manufacturers were allowed to use it for years because scientists did not believe that it takes the risk of cancer in humans at which it is commonly consumed.
At least one company is benefiting from the ban on artificial colors: McccormickWhich helps companies to turn their tastes and formulas.
“Now, improvement activity has always been a part of the work that we do with our customer base, and we have been doing this for a long time, and we have been doing this for a long time,” McCormic CEO Brendon Foley told analysts on the company’s earnings call at the end of March, and we have been doing this for a long time, but we are seeing a tick in improvement activity. “
