"US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics"

[substantialmajestic]

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics
New York Post
January 15th, 2025
By Carly Stern

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics

Red No. 3. is commonly found in candy, gum, and cookies, including Brach’s candy corn, Betty Crocker sprinkles, and strawberry Ensure over links to cancer.

nypost.com

The FDA today has issued an order today that will ban Red No. 3 from food products and ingested drugs.

The dye, which was approved for use in 1907, has been banned in cosmetics and topical drugs since 1990 over evidence that it can cause cancer. Its use in food is already banned or restricted in Australia, Japan, and countries in the EU.

Some have argued that RFK Juniors work on harmful processed food ingredients likely raised the pressure for the FDA to enact this decision. What other harmful processed food ingredients would you like to see removed from our food supply?

 

[Sven Karma]

Red pistachios were the weirdest foodstuff I saw in the USA.

 

[mrjurrs]

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics
New York Post
January 15th, 2025
By Carly Stern

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics

Red No. 3. is commonly found in candy, gum, and cookies, including Brach’s candy corn, Betty Crocker sprinkles, and strawberry Ensure over links to cancer.

nypost.com

Some have argued that RFK Juniors work on harmful processed food ingredients likely raised the pressure for the FDA to enact this decision. What other harmful processed food ingredients would you like to see removed from our food supply?

Those 'some' are wrong.

You may notice that cosmetics are external, and food is internal. The cancers generated by rats from cosmetic use did not appear in food consumption.

 

[ttwtt78640]

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics
New York Post
January 15th, 2025
By Carly Stern

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics

Red No. 3. is commonly found in candy, gum, and cookies, including Brach’s candy corn, Betty Crocker sprinkles, and strawberry Ensure over links to cancer.

nypost.com

Some have argued that RFK Juniors work on harmful processed food ingredients likely raised the pressure for the FDA to enact this decision. What other harmful processed food ingredients would you like to see removed from our food supply?

All of them, but what’s the definition of “harmful” based on?

 

[iamwhatiseem]

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics
New York Post
January 15th, 2025
By Carly Stern

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics

Red No. 3. is commonly found in candy, gum, and cookies, including Brach’s candy corn, Betty Crocker sprinkles, and strawberry Ensure over links to cancer.

nypost.com

Some have argued that RFK Juniors work on harmful processed food ingredients likely raised the pressure for the FDA to enact this decision. What other harmful processed food ingredients would you like to see removed from our food supply?

High Fructose corn syrup
Potassium Bromate
Titanium dioxide (banned practically every western country except America)
BHA and BHT - preservatives proven to be carcinogens

Just a few. There are at least 20 chemicals needing to be banned.

 

[Hello My Son]

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics
New York Post
January 15th, 2025
By Carly Stern

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics

Red No. 3. is commonly found in candy, gum, and cookies, including Brach’s candy corn, Betty Crocker sprinkles, and strawberry Ensure over links to cancer.

nypost.com

Some have argued that RFK Juniors work on harmful processed food ingredients likely raised the pressure for the FDA to enact this decision. What other harmful processed food ingredients would you like to see removed from our food supply?

Corn syrup, vegetable oil, and BHA, for starters. That would significantly reduce incidence rates of heart disease, diabetes, and certain cancers.

Most people have no idea that deli meats are carcinogenic, that vegetable oil could be easily replaced but isn't simply because the federal government doesn't want farmers and corporations to not be able to make profit off parts of plants that would otherwise not be consumed, and that all the added sugar coming from fat reduced foods is hell of a lot unhealthier for you than just eating higher fat content.

These tactics have also contributed to a large portion of the population being convinced, incorrectly, that it's more expensive to eat healthy when it most definitely is not.

 

[Taylor]

I had some very crazy/hyperactive nieces that were a bit much to be around until my sister did some experimenting and figured out it was caused by red dye. Don't know if I'd have believed it otherwise, but it was a night/day difference. The sort of "magic pill" fix you'd wish for achieved by not swallowing the drugs (what else to call it?) in their food.

 

[VanceMack]

For all the mockery of RFK as nominated to his position, its interesting that it literally took him being nominated for the FDA to make a change that should have been made decades ago.

 

[iamwhatiseem]

For all the mockery of RFK as nominated to his position, its interesting that it literally took him being nominated for the FDA to make a change that should have been made decades ago.

Exactly - I am looking forward to him.
The guy is out there, inarguable. But he is crazy enough to take on the giants and not back off like everyone else.
So if the net result of his tenure is healthier food and drugs - bring it on.
Down with corporatocracy that brought all of the unhealthy foods in the first place

 

[Bok Tuklo]

For all the mockery of RFK as nominated to his position, its interesting that it literally took him being nominated for the FDA to make a change that should have been made decades ago.

"The statement 'the rooster crows at sunrise every morning, so the rooster must cause the sun to rise' is an example of a logical fallacy known as a 'post hoc' fallacy. This fallacy occurs when someone falsely assumes that because one event follows another, the first event must have caused the second event. In this case, the rooster crowing comes after the sunrise, but it does not cause the sun to rise. The phenomenon of the sun rising is a result of the Earth's rotation."

 

[iamwhatiseem]

"The statement 'the rooster crows at sunrise every morning, so the rooster must cause the sun to rise' is an example of a logical fallacy known as a 'post hoc' fallacy. This fallacy occurs when someone falsely assumes that because one event follows another, the first event must have caused the second event. In this case, the rooster crowing comes after the sunrise, but it does not cause the sun to rise. The phenomenon of the sun rising is a result of the Earth's rotation."

Lord that was some serious rambling and fallacy itself.

 

[ttwtt78640]

Exactly - I am looking forward to him.
The guy is out there, inarguable. But he is crazy enough to take on the giants and not back off like everyone else.
So if the net result of his tenure is healthier food and drugs - bring it on.
Down with corporatocracy that brought all of the unhealthy foods in the first place

Hmm… what’s the definition of “unhealthy” based on?

 

[BirdinHand]

CA banned this in 2023 I believe?

And organizations have been petitioning the FDA on this since 2021 or 2022?

This action was in response to that petition - as stated in the article.

 

[ttwtt78640]

For all the mockery of RFK as nominated to his position, its interesting that it literally took him being nominated for the FDA to make a change that should have been made decades ago.

Is that correlation or causation?

 

[BirdinHand]

For all the mockery of RFK as nominated to his position, its interesting that it literally took him being nominated for the FDA to make a change that should have been made decades ago.

The decision is in response to petition filed back in 2022, how is that related to RFK?

 

[Bok Tuklo]

CA banned this in 2023 I believe?

And organizations have been petitioning the FDA on this since 2021 or 2022?

Now, now. The FDA did this on a whim because Trump. Or something.

 

[BirdinHand]

Now, now. The FDA did this on a whim because Trump. Or something.

Well of course.

You can go and find the petition and follow the status of it as it moved through the process.

But, its just easier to go "RFK" or "Trump" I guess?

 

[Bok Tuklo]

Well of course.

You can go and find the petition and follow the status of it as it moved through the process.

But, its just easier to go "RFK" or "Trump" I guess?

I hear that Trump also is responsible for the ceasefire agreement in Gaza. Seems no one was doing anything then ... **poof** ... Trump!

 

[VanceMack]

Hmm… what’s the definition of “unhealthy” based on?

I think we can start with the unhealthy inclusion of dangerous chemicals for the sake of sales and appearance, or dangerous preservatives that extend the life cycle, keeping food 'edible' beyond its state of food value.

 

[ttwtt78640]

I think we can start with the unhealthy inclusion of dangerous chemicals for the sake of sales and appearance, or dangerous preservatives that extend the life cycle, keeping food 'edible' beyond its state of food value.

You seem to have changed “unhealthy” into “dangerous”.

My concern is with things like the following:

19 Places Vegetable Oils Are Hiding (Plus Which Oils to Avoid)

If you were to break down your diet into percentages based on a guess, what would you imagine? Would you assume that a quarter of your daily calories were gr...

nativepath.com

 

[Grand Mal]

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics
New York Post
January 15th, 2025
By Carly Stern

US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics

Red No. 3. is commonly found in candy, gum, and cookies, including Brach’s candy corn, Betty Crocker sprinkles, and strawberry Ensure over links to cancer.

nypost.com

Some have argued that RFK Juniors work on harmful processed food ingredients likely raised the pressure for the FDA to enact this decision. What other harmful processed food ingredients would you like to see removed from our food supply?

How about growth hormones?

 

[phoenix2020]

CA banned this in 2023 I believe?

And organizations have been petitioning the FDA on this since 2021 or 2022?

This action was in response to that petition - as stated in the article.

The CA ban was signed into law by Newsom sometime last year, and I believe it was the first time a state moved to ban a food or ingredient that the FDA had deemed safe.

 

[Metric Mouse]

Cool. Good news.

 

[Allan]

For all the mockery of RFK as nominated to his position, its interesting that it literally took him being nominated for the FDA to make a change that should have been made decades ago.

The guy who claimed Canadian Froot Loops only has three ingredients (It has 26) is an absolute fool completely unqualified for the job he's been nominated to.

 

[Integrityrespec]

Just leave M&M's and Jelly Belly's alone.