President Donald Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration announced intentions on Tuesday to adopt policies that may “phase out all petroleum-based artificial colors from the world’s food offer”.
In a Tuesday press launch, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that it would be working to “revoke approval” for two unnatural food colors and would be taking actions to “eliminate” six different artificial colors. The ministry described Tuesday’s news as a” major step” in the Trump administration’s schedule to” Make America Healthy Again”.
” For too long, some food manufacturers have been feeding Americans petroleum-based toxins without their information or consent”, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. said.  ,” These hazardous substances offer no nutritional advantage and pose real, tangible risks to our children’s health and growth”.
” That time is coming to an end”, Kennedy added. ” We’re restoring gold-standard research, applying common sense, and beginning to make up the government’s confidence. And we’re doing it by working with business to get these dangerous colors out of the food our people eat every day”.
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The Food and Drug Administration confirmed in Tuesday’s press release that the eight petroleum-based foods colors that will be phased out by the Trump administration include Citrus Red No. 2, Orange B, FD&, C Green No. 3, FD&, C Red No. 40, FD&, C Yellow No. 5, FD&, C Yellow No. 6, FD&, C Blue No. 1, and FD&, C Blue No. 2.
According to The Daily Wire, food companies in Canada and Europe already use healthy options to color foods instead of using synthetic petroleum-based food colors.
” Currently, the FDA is asking foods firms to replace chemical colors with natural components for British children as they already do in Europe and Canada”, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary said in Tuesday’s media release.  ,” We have a fresh epidemic of childhood diabetes, obesity, melancholy, and ADHD. Given the growing problems of doctors and parents about the possible part of petroleum-based food colours, we should not be taking dangers and do everything possible to protect the health of our kids”.
While health advocates have criticized artificial food dyes in the past, the Food and Drug Administration previously reported,” The totality of scientific evidence indicates that most children have no adverse effects when consuming foods containing color additives, but some evidence suggests that certain children may be sensitive to them”.
