Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary announced that “petroleum-based food dyes” would be removed from the United States food supply.
During a press conference on Tuesday, Makary spoke about how the scientific community had “conducted a number of studies raising concerns about the correlation between petroleum-based synthetic dyes” and health conditions like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and cancer. Kennedy Jr. also vowed to “get rid of” artificial food dyes.
“Today, the FDA is taking action to remove petroleum-based food dyes from the U.S. food supply and from medications,” Makary said. “For the last 50 years, American children have increasingly been living in a toxic soup of synthetic chemicals. The scientific community has conducted a number of studies raising concerns about the correlation between petroleum-based synthetic dyes and several health conditions, such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, cancer, genomic disruption, GI issues – as I’ve seen in the hospital, and allergic reactions.”
In a press release from the FDA, it was revealed that the HSS and FDA were announcing “a series of new measures to phase out all petroleum-based synthetic