Candy is offered as a secretary of US Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. USA, April 22, 2025.
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The fluorescent red made of flamin 'hot chetos, the brilliant blue -green blue -green explosion and the colorful rainbow of the bowling will soon be dimmed.
The Food and Drug Administration exhibits the use of synthetic dyes from a petroleum basis until the end of next year, the agency said on Tuesday.
“In the past 50 years, American children have lived in a toxic soup of synthetic chemicals,” said the FDA Commissioner Marty Makary at a press conference.
Food and beverage companies use additives such as Red Dye 40 to give muesli, chips, sports drinks and other products bright shades that attract buyers. But in the United States, artificial color shots have brewed against artificial colors in the United States.
The changes affect a number of food giants, including PepsicoPresent General MillsMars and WK Kellogg. The industry has argued that the claims about the dangers of artificial dyes are not missing any evidence that would support all bans.
From Tuesday, the FDA and the food industry have no formal agreement on the removal of artificial dyes, but “an understanding”, said the Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“There are a number of tools that are available to us,” said Makary. “I believe in love, we start friendly and see if we can do this without legal or regulatory changes, but we examine every tool in the toolbox to ensure that this is done very quickly. And so you want to do it – so why go down a complicated road with the congress?”
According to Makary, the FDA took several measures, including a “national standard” and the schedule for the food industry, in order to switch from oil -based color to natural alternatives. The agency also initiates a process to revoke the approval of synthetic food colors, including those who are not in production in the coming weeks.
He added that the FDA will also remove the remaining six synthetic dyes on the market from the US food supply by the end of the year, in particular the red dye 40, the yellow dye 6, the blue dye 1, the blue 2 and the green dye.
“Try companies that are currently using red dye with a petroleum basis, watermelon juice or beet juice. For companies that currently combine yellow chemicals and red dyes from petroleum basis, they try carotta juice,” he said.
Marty Makary, Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
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Makary added that the agency plans to approve four additional color additives with natural ingredients in the coming weeks and at the same time to accelerate the check and approval of other natural ingredients.
Makary quoted a Lancet study that came to the conclusion that artificial colors in the diet “lead to increased hyperactivity”.
“The F in the FDA stands for food,” he said. “Now there is no ingredient that constitutes the epidemic in chronic diseases in children.
Last month, Kennedy announced to TOP FOOD managers that removing artificial dyes from the food system is an urgent priority of the Trump management. The participants included the CEOs of Pepsico North America, Kraft Heinz, General Mills, Tyson Foods, WK Kellogg, JM Smucker and The Consumer Brands Association, the best trading group in the industry.
Kennedy used Kellogg's Froot Loops as his primary example when scolding artificial coloring agents.
It is unclear how exactly the removal of dye can influence the companies of the companies, but it will be an essential effort to revise recipes – and the new looks could affect the perception of the products.
Makary said that the exit of food dyes on a petroleum basis does not increase food prices, which indicates other countries that have taken similar steps. However, synthetic dyes are generally cheaper than natural alternatives that often require larger quantities to achieve living colors, and can wear higher production costs after some reports and a natural ingredient manufacturer.
Previous pushback from consumer representatives previously prompted some companies to optimize their formulas and to fall artificial dyes without government intervention. In 2015, Kraft Heinz changed the recipe of its trademark and cheese to use the same natural colors in the European version of the product.
But the changes don't always remain. In 2017, General Mills turned the course and put the artificially colored Trix -Müsli back on the shelves. The naturally colored grain that turmeric, radishes and purple used carrots was not so alive and the customers rejected the new version.
Kennedy is at the top of a 1.7-brillion agency of $ 1.7 trillion, which monitors food and tobacco products, vaccines and other medications, scientific research, infrastructure for public health and state-financed health care. After only two months in the workplace, he has drastically changed the federal health agencies of the country.
Us Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., leaves the stage after the results of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of the latest autism and developmental disorders surveillance (ADDM) Network Umage (ADDM) in the Department of Health and Human Services in Washington, US, US USA, were discussed on April 16, 2025.
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In March, he announced plans to reduce 10,000 full -time employees in various departments and consolidate departments. He has cut decisive parts of HHS back, including offices that handle the HIV prevention efforts, and the work to eliminate differences in health care. The Food and Drug Administration also enables a quality control program to test fluid milk and other dairy products, since the capacity in the Department of Food Safety and Nutrition was reduced, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
Kennedy's so-called Make America Healthy Nother platform argues that a corrupt alliance of drug and food companies and the Federal Health agencies that regulate the Americans are less healthy. He has undertaken to end the epidemic of chronic diseases in children and adults, and was loud to produce nutritious food as a drug, which is of central importance for this goal.
In January, before President Donald Trump or Kennedy assumed his office, the Food and Drug Administration revoked the approval of a kind of red food dye called Red No. 3. The dye causes cancer in laboratory, but food manufacturers have been able to apply for years because the scientists have raised the risk of cancer at level at level.
At least one company benefits from the ban on artificial dyes: MccormickWhat companies help to optimize their flavors and formulas.
“Now the formulation activity has always been part of the work that we do with our customer base, and we have been doing this for some time, but we see a checkmark in reformulation activity,” said McCormick -Ceo Brendan Foley to the company's earnings authorizations at the end of March and added that companies are looking for both artificial colors and the sodium sodium from their products.
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