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Artificial food dyes are slated to become a thing of the past after the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) partnered with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to phase out synthetic petroleum-based food coloring from the American food supply.
According to a HHS press release published on Tuesday, the FDA plans to establish a proper timeline for this transition before revoking the use authorization, but aims to eliminate the use of these additives by December 2026.
The current food dyes on the chopping block are: 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.
Additionally, the HHS and FDA are reviewing and potentially authorizing four new natural food dyes. They are also requesting that food companies remove FD&C Red Dye No. 3 sooner than the recently requested 2027-2028 deadline.
RSBN reported that Red Dye No. 3 was banned just before President Donald Trump’s inauguration after campaigning to make Kennedy the nation’s Health Secretary. Kennedy sought to remove questionable additives from the food supply long before being sworn in.
While publicly revealing this plan on Tuesday, he stated in a speech broadcast by local Fox 4 Dallas-Fort Worth, “When my uncle was president, three percent of American kids had chronic disease; today it’s around 60 percent.”
He listed ADD, ADHD, turrets syndrome, autism, speech delay and narcolepsy as chronic diseases that are increasingly plaguing American children. He pointed out the $1.8 trillion that is now spent each year to combat these growing epidemics.
“It’s bankrupting our nation,” Kennedy stated. He also questioned the drop in fertility rates and noted unnatural hormonal imbalances in teenagers.
He declared, “This is existential for our country and we have to address it.”