UK Color Free? How US?
It took this scientific article in the journal Lancet to get anything moving.
The Food Standards Agency oversees the food safety in the UK. They are calling on companies to identify all products without food additives … particularly food dyes.
Is it not incredible to you that anyone would have to prove that chemical dyes are something you should remove from the food chain?
That said, it is heartening to see that we’re starting to develop a healthy skepticism for synthetics in our foods. This represents a wonderful change in the attitude, and this new demand will drive supply into a healthy direction.
This news story represents a case in point. The FSA is pushing a voluntary phase-out of these colors by the end of 2009, after the above study showed that feeding kids these dyes can degrade their behavior, leading to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The research was carried out at the University of Southampton and published in The Lancet in September 2007.
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