WASHINGTON (AP)-US health officials said on Tuesday that they would go to oilArtificial colorsIn the country’s food supply, it may lead to repairing components to obtain dozens of bright products on American store shelves.
The Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, Marti Macari, said at a press conference that the Food and Food Department will take steps to eliminate artificial dyes by the end of 2026. The agency will create a standard and schedule for the industry to switch to natural alternatives, cancel the license of dyes that are not in production in the coming weeks and take steps to remove the remaining dyes on the market.
Makary said that the removal of artificial dyes will enhance the health of children.
Macari said: “Over the past fifty years, we have been running one of the world’s largest notable experiments in the world over the children of our nation without their consent,” Macari said.
Health defendersHe has long called for the removal of artificial dyes from foods, citing mixed studies indicating that they could cause negative negative problems, including hyperactivity and attention, in some children. The FDA (FDA) confirmed that the approved dyes are safe and that “the total scientific evidence indicates that most children do not have harmful effects when consuming foods that contain colored additives.”
The Food and Drug Administration currently provides 36 additives to food colors, including eight artificial pigments. In January, the agency announced that the dye known as Red 3 – used in candy, cakes and some medications –It will be bannedIn food by 2027 because it caused cancer in the laboratory mice.
Synthetic dyesIt is widely used in American foods. In Canada and Europe – where artificial colors are required to carry warning stickers – manufacturers are often used as natural alternatives. Several states, including California and West Virginia,I have issued lawsRestricting the use of artificial colors in foods.
This announcement was extracted from the defenders who say that the dyes carry health risks and do not serve any purpose that exceeds cosmetics.
“Their only goal is to gain the funds of food companies,” said Dr. Peter Lori, head of the Science Center in the Public Authority and a former FDA official. “Food dyes help make the unknown foods more attractive, especially for children, often by hiding the absence of a colored element, such as fruit.”
The removal of artificial dyes from Foods has always been a target of the so -called Maha Moms, and the main supporters of the Minister of Health Robert F. Kennedy JR. His initiatives “Make Americana are healthy again”. They were among the demonstrators who fell in contactAbroadMichigan headquarters at WK Kelogg Co. Last year, the company demands the removal of artificial dyes from breakfast cereals in the United States
The Vani Hari group, a famous activist known as The Food Babe, which was previously pressing Kraft Heinz to remove artificial dyes from pasta and cheese. Harry spoke at the Tuesday event.
She said the movement coincides with a “new era” in safe food for children.
However, food manufacturers said that the procedure will not be fairly targeted with highly organized color additions that have long been confirmed as safe.
“There are not enough alternatives to replace these products,” said the International Color Manufacturers Association in a statement. “Supply chains will take an estimated five to 10 years to catch up with the import and require the import of more expensive components cultivated in China, India and Mexico.”
“The industry needs time to find safe and viable alternatives.”
Susan Main, a chronic diseases expert at Yale University and former director of the Food and Drug Administration Center, said that removal of dyes from food supply will not address the main health problems that Americans suffer.
“With every edition of their ads, they focus on something that will not make what they say,” Mine said about Kennedy’s initiatives. “Most of these diets were in our food supply for 100 years … so why did they not lead towards discounts in things that push the rates of chronic diseases?”
In the past, FDA officials (FDA) said that the threat of legal procedures from the food industry requires the government to have important scientific evidence before banning additions. RED 3 of cosmetics has been banned more than three decades before it was stripped of food and medicine. It took five decades until the FDA prohibits the banned vegetable oils due to health concerns.
But Lori said that industrial officials may not challenge the Trump administration.
“They do not want to get the wrong side of the head of revenge,” he said.
Hours before this announcement, the International Dairy Society for Dairy Dairy said that its members will voluntarily eliminate artificial colors in milk, cheese and milk products sold for American school meal programs by July 2026. Most dairy products for schools do not contain artificial colors, as most dairy treatments have chosen not to use or have already removed or replaced them, on officials in the trade group in Dairy.
Some state laws that prohibit artificial dyes in school meals have aggressive time schedules. The western Virginia state, for example, prohibits red, yellow, blue and green artificial dyes in school meals starting from August 1. A broader ban will expand restrictions on all foods sold in the state on January 1, 2028.
Many American food companies are already reformulating their foods, according to Sensient colors, one of the largest producers of dyes and flavors in the world. Instead of artificial dyes, food makers can use natural shapes made of beets, algae, broken insects, and dyes of sweet purple, radish and red cabbage.