The Donald Trump government announced on Tuesday, April 22, its intention to eliminate food by the end of 2026, all artificial dyes currently authorized in the United States, a measure backed by health experts and the issue of a rare political consensus.
The American Food and Pharmaceutical Control Agency (FDA) “de facto de facto de facto de facto de facto de facto led oil derived from oil in the United States,” said his new boss, Marty Makary, at a press conference along with the United States Minister Robert Kennedy Jr.
In total, there are eight artificial colors present today in thousands of American food products, such as sweets, cereals, sauces and drinks, which will be gradually banned at the end of 2026 and replaced by natural dyes, they said, saying the good will of the food industry.
“A toxic soup of artificial chemicals”
“In the last 50 years, American children have lived in a toxic soup of artificial chemicals,” said Marty Makary previously, citing studies that link these additives with hyperactivity, diabetes or even cancer.
This announcement is deduced that, in mid -January, from the previous democratic administration to remove food from another artificial color called “Red 3” in North America and E127 in Europe and known for more than 30 years to cause cancers in animals.
“None of them have nutritional value,” says AFP Peter Lurie, president of a Consumer Defense Association, the Public Interest Center (CSPI), which demanded its prohibition. “Actually, they only serve to deceive, to publish the most drop -down, more blue, more fruity or more attractive food than they really are.” And this in a commercial objective.
The authorization of two dyes soon revoked
According to a press release from the Ministry of Health, the FDA will first revoke the authorization of two of the eight colors “in the coming months”, then “will work with the industry to eliminate” the remaining six, much more widespread, such as the network “Red 40” (known as E129 in Europe) and the yellows “yellow 5” (E102) and “Yellow 6” (E110).).
Parallel to this work, the health authorities “will authorize four new natural dyes in the coming weeks” and accelerate the approval processes of others, the text details.
“We are going to get rid of all the ingredients and all the food additives that we can legally regulate,” Robert Kennedy Jr promised to the applause of the “Maha” mothers who came to the occasion with their children.
Source: BFM TV
