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Secretary of American Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the ban on more than half a dozen synthetic food colors is only the beginning because it works to deal with the American chronic health crisis.
“We will do the right science and we will scientifically work on the issues that are American[s] care for. Ensure that their children get food that is not poison. The food that our children eat today is not really food. These are substances like food, “he said in” Jesse Watters Primetime. “
RFK JR., together with the National Institute of Health Director Jay Bhattachary and the Food and Medication Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makaryannounced on Tuesday in Washington, DC, plans to abolish synthetic oil -based synthetic colors in the country’s supply.
National Health Institutes of Health Jayant Bhattacharya, Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Commissioner for the Food and Medicines Directorate Makary arrives at a press conference in the Health and Human Services Department on April 22, 2025 in Washington, DC ((Photo Andrew Hardik/Getty Images))
This move is part of the wider effort of a regulator to reconsider what Americans consume. FDA banned red no. 3 to be used in food earlier this year, quoting ties to cancer in some animals.
FDA and HHS plan to start the process of recall of authorization for two synthetic food colors – Citrus red no. 2 and Orange B – in the coming months.
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It also works to remove six remaining synthetic colors, such as green no. 3, red no. 40 and yellow no. 5, from food supply until the end of 2026.
Ingredients, including artificial colors red number 40, yellow number 5 and blue number 1, listed on a box of cereals of Frot loop, sold to the United States, decorated in New York, on Wednesday, May 2, 2024, which were found in the course of the involvement in a new place on new regulations on new stakes in Karatu on new. designed for children. (Photographer: Lucia Buricelli/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
FDA quickly follows an overview of other natural alternatives to the synthetic colors of food, such as the extract of the flower of the butterfly pea, According to a press release from HHS.
Rfk Jr. He told the host Fox News Jesse Watters to do the Trump administration on the children to give children “real food”.
“We have the biggest burden of chronic diseases of any country in the world. When my uncle was president, 3% of Americans had a chronic illness. Today, it’s 60%,” he said. “Seventy -four percent of our children cannot qualify for military service. We have fertility rates that only spirals.”
Former independent presidential candidate 2024 noted that the ingredients in Frot loops are very different from those who are used today.
“We use today Chemicals in loops which are banned in almost every country in the world. So, if you buy Frot loops in Canada today, it is made of vegetable colors. If you buy it here in the United States, it is made of oil synthetics, “explained RFK JR.
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He added that US consumers should be aware of the ingredients that are added to their food and any potential health risks they may represent.
