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Group urges ban of 3 common dyes
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) says food dyes pose a number of risks to the American public and is calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban three of the most commonly used dyes: Red 40, Yellow 5 and Yellow 6. A new CSPI report says those dyes contain known carcinogens and contaminants that unnecessarily increase the risks of cancer, hyperactivity in children and allergic reactions. Food and Drug Administration should ban dyes, which would force industry to color foods with real food ingredients, not toxic petrochemicals. appreciate the report from CSPI and look forward van cleef and arpels sweet alhambra necklace copy to reviewing it. We take our commitment to protecting children seriously to the report, tests done on lab animals found contaminants that raised health concerns about several of the nine dyes currently approved for market. The approved dyes are Blue 1 2, Citrus Red 2, Green 3, Orange B, Red 3 40 and Yellow 5 6. And every year, about 15 million pounds of these dyes wind up in our food, with alot of it ending up in things like candy, fruit drinks and cereals.
The report is based on the FDA own studies, and studies done by Industry and turned over to the FDA. But a statement from the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), who represents the industry says science shows food dyes are safe. Both the FDA and the food and beverage industry continually monitor any new research or data in this area to determine if a change in current policy is warranted. It is important for consumers and policymakers to know that food dyes are widely studied and that the overwhelming majority of scientific evidence confirms the safety of artificial food colors. For example, CSPI says McDonald Strawberry Sundaes get their color from fresh strawberries. The group says in the United Statesthe color comes from Red dye 40. CSPI say in the UK, Fanta orange soda coloring comes from pumpkins and carrot extract. Here, it says the color comes from Red 40 and Yellow 6 dye.
Rand Carpenter, a spokesperson for Coca Cola, who makes Fanta, says they stand by their productsin the United States and abroad. The thing is that yes there are a lot of product in the marketplace today with chemicals in them that you should not eat too much of, but that goes for all products natural and artificial. You are not making your kids completely safe by eliminating their intake of food dyes. It is a very good idea to have them eat foods that are more healthy in general but generalizing that one particular ingredient is going to cause them great harm when billions of children have been ingesting these compounds for years with less documented issues than natural food such as nuts and fruits is absurd and totally misguided. Many more children die every year from food poisining and food allergies than die from synthetic food coloring.
July 1, 2010 at 11:04
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Let me get your position straight: Is it that life expectancy has increased due to the use of synthetic food perservatives? Or is it since life expectancy has increased there should not be any concern about whether certain chemicals have any adverse effects? Sorry, but neither one makes much sense to me.
Also, I don think anyone is arguing that people should not be concerned about allergies and only be concerned with artificial allergies. It is possible to be a parent that is concerned about allergies to peanuts, etc. in addition to certain perservatives.
July 1, 2010 at 11:16
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Partly, I said PARTLY! Not fighting for chemicals just trying to point out to people that you should not just read something like this and think that these compounds are going to kill you or your kids, especially when there are so many other food dangers in the world. I grant you that the preservative issue should be seperate of the synthetic dye but it is valid that part of the reason that we live longer is that current preservatives and processes allow us to eat much safer food and have a much more stable supply of it. I actually work for a major organic food company that makes only all natural products so if these products were banned my company would have an advantage over the van cleef and arpels magic alhambra necklace copy companies that currently sell these products. Working in the food industry for as long as I have I have seen the data from these studies and others and just want the oublic to understand that there are much more improtant food issues that should concern them.
July 1, 2010 at 11:26
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I just think we have been heading down the van cleef and arpels zipper necklace copy wrong path. Just because it works for whole and doesn cause any problems outright doesn mean that it good for our future. All these chemicals are adding up in our bodies, our land and water. I was raised in an Italian family built on homemade, good food. I was taught to stay away from the junk. Nowadays it something that we all need to consider. Fast food, quick energy, etc. help you endure trough our fast paced, work orientated society. We built for speed and what we ingest has much to do with this unhealthy lifestyle. This is a free country (so to speak) and companies have rights to produce such foods and it our duty as responsible people to feed our kids right and take care of ourselves the way that is best. Things aren going to change overnight so take charge and keep yourself and your family healthy! Things will change eventually. I hope.
July 1, 2010 at 11:46
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My 2 year old daughter is sensitive to Red 40, and Yellow 6 as well. It not sugar, it not anything else, it is the dye for sure. I noticed she got very, very, very unnaturally hyper on Motrin starting before she was one year old. I stopped giving her Motrin and the hyper stopped One day she had a red Swedish Fish and went THROUGH THE ROOF. As another poster said, you can easily tell the difference between regular hyper and Red 40 hyper. Anyone who has seen it knows. So I check the Motrin and, sure enough, Red 40. Just to be sure I got some dye free Motrin and tried it. No reaction at all. None.
We are Americans living in Germany with the US Army and as a result I have access to both American food (at the post commissary) and German food, as well as American medicines and German ones. The American stuff is FULL of these colors. The first time my daughter had an ear infection there was ONE antibiotic that did not have Red 40. ONE. Next time I went to a German pharmacy none of the liquid antibiotics were pink. We got her the medicine, which was still flavored like raspberry, by the way, and she took it with no problem.
The dyes in the food is difficult and makes it very hard on us when feeding our daughter, This will for sure get harder as she gets older and begins to request things like M and Pop Tarts and other crap her friends are eating. However putting that stuff in children medicines is criminal. I have to hunt high and low for dye free versions of over the counter meds, and there is currently one liquid antibiotic that she can take. How is that acceptable? Every doctor she has ever seen knows just what I am talking about when van cleef gold clover necklace copy I say Red 40 makes her crazy, The last doc said some kids get asthma like symptoms!
If the Germans can have M and gummi bears and crazy colored cereals and ANTIBIOTICS with dye in them, then we can to. It is time we demand better for our kids.
July 1, 2010 at 13:08
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The CSPI may be overreaching here but I would love to see the FDA conduct a complete re examination of certified dyes in processed foods. I have a pretty serious intolerance for Red Dye 40 (it not dangerous but it certainly unpleasant) and was appalled by pervasiveness of its use.
While there may be some disagreement about the safety of these dyes, there no disagreement about how widely used these synthetic dyes are! You find Red40 in the unlikeliest of places, from white cake frosting (to warm up the white color) to chocolate pudding (to make it look like a darker, richer brown).
July 1, 2010 at 13:19
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As the parent of a child who loses it when she eats red and yellow dyes( the person who described it as 40 hyper knows exactly what I mean), there is no question that they dyes are the problem. Her pediatrician is the one who gave me a heads up, so he knows too. That said, I simply don purchase products with those dyes in them and her teachers know that she can have them. At this point, even she knows to read the labels because she doesn like the out of control feeling. It makes shopping difficult sometimes and there is yummy stuff she can have. I wish they weren there, but with a little time and effort you can avoid them and allow parents who just don care to continue pumping their kids up with carcinogens.
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) says food dyes pose a number of risks to the American public and is calling on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban three of the most commonly used dyes: Red 40, Yellow 5 and Yellow 6. A new CSPI report says those dyes contain known carcinogens and contaminants that unnecessarily increase the risks of cancer, hyperactivity in children and allergic reactions. Food and Drug Administration should ban dyes, which would force industry to color foods with real food ingredients, not toxic petrochemicals. appreciate the report from CSPI and look forward van cleef and arpels sweet alhambra necklace copy to reviewing it. We take our commitment to protecting children seriously to the report, tests done on lab animals found contaminants that raised health concerns about several of the nine dyes currently approved for market. The approved dyes are Blue 1 2, Citrus Red 2, Green 3, Orange B, Red 3 40 and Yellow 5 6. And every year, about 15 million pounds of these dyes wind up in our food, with alot of it ending up in things like candy, fruit drinks and cereals.
The report is based on the FDA own studies, and studies done by Industry and turned over to the FDA. But a statement from the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA), who represents the industry says science shows food dyes are safe. Both the FDA and the food and beverage industry continually monitor any new research or data in this area to determine if a change in current policy is warranted. It is important for consumers and policymakers to know that food dyes are widely studied and that the overwhelming majority of scientific evidence confirms the safety of artificial food colors. For example, CSPI says McDonald Strawberry Sundaes get their color from fresh strawberries. The group says in the United Statesthe color comes from Red dye 40. CSPI say in the UK, Fanta orange soda coloring comes from pumpkins and carrot extract. Here, it says the color comes from Red 40 and Yellow 6 dye.
Rand Carpenter, a spokesperson for Coca Cola, who makes Fanta, says they stand by their productsin the United States and abroad. The thing is that yes there are a lot of product in the marketplace today with chemicals in them that you should not eat too much of, but that goes for all products natural and artificial. You are not making your kids completely safe by eliminating their intake of food dyes. It is a very good idea to have them eat foods that are more healthy in general but generalizing that one particular ingredient is going to cause them great harm when billions of children have been ingesting these compounds for years with less documented issues than natural food such as nuts and fruits is absurd and totally misguided. Many more children die every year from food poisining and food allergies than die from synthetic food coloring.
July 1, 2010 at 11:04
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Let me get your position straight: Is it that life expectancy has increased due to the use of synthetic food perservatives? Or is it since life expectancy has increased there should not be any concern about whether certain chemicals have any adverse effects? Sorry, but neither one makes much sense to me.
Also, I don think anyone is arguing that people should not be concerned about allergies and only be concerned with artificial allergies. It is possible to be a parent that is concerned about allergies to peanuts, etc. in addition to certain perservatives.
July 1, 2010 at 11:16
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Partly, I said PARTLY! Not fighting for chemicals just trying to point out to people that you should not just read something like this and think that these compounds are going to kill you or your kids, especially when there are so many other food dangers in the world. I grant you that the preservative issue should be seperate of the synthetic dye but it is valid that part of the reason that we live longer is that current preservatives and processes allow us to eat much safer food and have a much more stable supply of it. I actually work for a major organic food company that makes only all natural products so if these products were banned my company would have an advantage over the van cleef and arpels magic alhambra necklace copy companies that currently sell these products. Working in the food industry for as long as I have I have seen the data from these studies and others and just want the oublic to understand that there are much more improtant food issues that should concern them.
July 1, 2010 at 11:26
Report abuse
I just think we have been heading down the van cleef and arpels zipper necklace copy wrong path. Just because it works for whole and doesn cause any problems outright doesn mean that it good for our future. All these chemicals are adding up in our bodies, our land and water. I was raised in an Italian family built on homemade, good food. I was taught to stay away from the junk. Nowadays it something that we all need to consider. Fast food, quick energy, etc. help you endure trough our fast paced, work orientated society. We built for speed and what we ingest has much to do with this unhealthy lifestyle. This is a free country (so to speak) and companies have rights to produce such foods and it our duty as responsible people to feed our kids right and take care of ourselves the way that is best. Things aren going to change overnight so take charge and keep yourself and your family healthy! Things will change eventually. I hope.
July 1, 2010 at 11:46
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My 2 year old daughter is sensitive to Red 40, and Yellow 6 as well. It not sugar, it not anything else, it is the dye for sure. I noticed she got very, very, very unnaturally hyper on Motrin starting before she was one year old. I stopped giving her Motrin and the hyper stopped One day she had a red Swedish Fish and went THROUGH THE ROOF. As another poster said, you can easily tell the difference between regular hyper and Red 40 hyper. Anyone who has seen it knows. So I check the Motrin and, sure enough, Red 40. Just to be sure I got some dye free Motrin and tried it. No reaction at all. None.
We are Americans living in Germany with the US Army and as a result I have access to both American food (at the post commissary) and German food, as well as American medicines and German ones. The American stuff is FULL of these colors. The first time my daughter had an ear infection there was ONE antibiotic that did not have Red 40. ONE. Next time I went to a German pharmacy none of the liquid antibiotics were pink. We got her the medicine, which was still flavored like raspberry, by the way, and she took it with no problem.
The dyes in the food is difficult and makes it very hard on us when feeding our daughter, This will for sure get harder as she gets older and begins to request things like M and Pop Tarts and other crap her friends are eating. However putting that stuff in children medicines is criminal. I have to hunt high and low for dye free versions of over the counter meds, and there is currently one liquid antibiotic that she can take. How is that acceptable? Every doctor she has ever seen knows just what I am talking about when van cleef gold clover necklace copy I say Red 40 makes her crazy, The last doc said some kids get asthma like symptoms!
If the Germans can have M and gummi bears and crazy colored cereals and ANTIBIOTICS with dye in them, then we can to. It is time we demand better for our kids.
July 1, 2010 at 13:08
Report abuse Reply
The CSPI may be overreaching here but I would love to see the FDA conduct a complete re examination of certified dyes in processed foods. I have a pretty serious intolerance for Red Dye 40 (it not dangerous but it certainly unpleasant) and was appalled by pervasiveness of its use.
While there may be some disagreement about the safety of these dyes, there no disagreement about how widely used these synthetic dyes are! You find Red40 in the unlikeliest of places, from white cake frosting (to warm up the white color) to chocolate pudding (to make it look like a darker, richer brown).
July 1, 2010 at 13:19
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As the parent of a child who loses it when she eats red and yellow dyes( the person who described it as 40 hyper knows exactly what I mean), there is no question that they dyes are the problem. Her pediatrician is the one who gave me a heads up, so he knows too. That said, I simply don purchase products with those dyes in them and her teachers know that she can have them. At this point, even she knows to read the labels because she doesn like the out of control feeling. It makes shopping difficult sometimes and there is yummy stuff she can have. I wish they weren there, but with a little time and effort you can avoid them and allow parents who just don care to continue pumping their kids up with carcinogens.
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