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Home Front: Politix
RFK Jr. To Ban Petroleum-Based Food Dyes
2025-04-22
[DAILYWIRE] Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to direct food manufacturers to phase out eight petroleum-based food dyes from cereals, sports drinks, and other grocery staples by the end of 2026.

The directive, expected to be announced in full detail on Tuesday, affects hundreds of thousands of grocery store items containing eight petroleum-based dyes, which health experts have long criticized for potentially causing hyperactivity and other neurobehavioral problems in children, according to a New York Times

...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
 report.

The eight dyes being targeted include Red No. 40, Yellow No. 5, Yellow No. 6, Blue No. 1, Blue No. 2, Green No. 3, Red No. 3, and Orange B, according to details provided by HHS officials to the Times.
Green dye #3 is my favorite. Mmmmmmmm
Of course. Just look at you!
Food industry experts estimate that the reformulation costs could reach into the billions, though many companies have already developed alternative formulations for their European and Canadian products.
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Posted by:Fred

#6  I am hoping this is the end to Christmas Fruitcake.
Posted by: Super Hose   2025-04-22 12:31  

#5  I've heard it said that if you can't pronounce the names of the ingredients in a food or beverage, you should not consume it.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2025-04-22 12:29  

#4  Red No. 40, Yellow No. 5, Yellow No. 6, Blue No. 1, Blue No. 2, Green No. 3, Red No. 3, and Orange B

When you look at the list of ingredients and you see an innocuous sounding name like one of the above you might not think much about it. But what if they had to list the ingredients, the chemicals, that are used to produce Orange B and all the rest of them?
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2025-04-22 12:27  

#3  Over the last two centuries or so, the human race has been marinating in a stew of manmade chemicals. The variety of these chemicals has been expanded with each new invention. They can (but not always do) act as direct poisons, hormones, carcinogens, inflammation promoters, etc. Now microscopic deposits of modern plastics are being found in tissues of many organisms. I got my bachelor's degree in chemistry, but after I discovered how many of old time chemists died of chemical toxicity I chose another path.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2025-04-22 09:11  

#2  ...you mean besides lopping off their body parts for their latest fetish?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2025-04-22 07:52  

#1  These were invented to use up waste products and make a few more pennies from already-wealthy oil companies.
Hurting our children for profit. Where have we heard this before?
Posted by: Angulet Glomoper3773   2025-04-22 01:44  

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