Trump administration moves to ban artificial food dyes by 2026

The administration of President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, April 22, announced plans to prohibit synthetic dyes of the US food supply, a measure welcome by health experts and marking a rare point of bipartisan Aalreement in an OHR to the political climate really delight. The Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy Jr. has promised to review the United States food system under the flag of his “Make America Healy Again” agenda, and the impulse would eliminate the eight artificial food coloring approved at the end of 2026.

It is based on a prohibition of red dye 3 by the government of former President Joe, but accelerates the timeline and asks the National Health Institutes to carry out comprehensive research on how additives affect the development of children.

“During the last 50 years, American children have been living more and more in a toxic soup of synthetic chemicals,” said Marty Makary’s food and drugs at a press conference, surrounded by young families and supporters of Maha. The aforementioned studies that link synthetic dyes with conditions that include hyperactivity care deficit disorder (ADHD), diabetes, cancer, genomic interruption, gastrointestinal problems and more.

Kennedy, meanwhile, described the issue of dyes and additives more generally an “existential” threat. “When my uncle was president in the 1960s, we had the healthiest people in the world, and one of the basic assumptions of our country was that we were robust people … That was the answer for our country to be the land of the brave and the free,” hey. “

The new plan is based to a large extent that the food industry meets voluntarily, he added, but have been reception in conversations. Of the eight synthetic dyes derived from oil, yellow 5, yellow 6 and red 40 constitute the part of the lion of those in use, said Peter Lurie, president and executive director of the center of non -profit sciences. They are found in a range of products, from cases and sweets to cereals, sauces and dairy products.

“None of them transmits anything of nutritional importance, and what they really have to fool: to make food seem in some way more red, somehow more blue, somehow more fruitful or more attractive than it is,” he said. “And the purpose of everything that is to increase sales, is nothing that benefits the American public.”

Bipartisan impulse

The impulse has been building at the state level. In March, the Western Virginia, with a republican tendency, promulgated a broad prohibition of synthetic dyes, after the decision of California to restrict them in public schools. While the red dye No. 3 was previously attacked for elimination of food and medication elimination for 2027 and 2028 respectively due to cancer concerns, remunerating dyes have been linked to behavioral problems such as attention deficit disorder in children. In Europe, these dyes are not prohibited directly, but the requirement of carrying warning labels has led many companies to change to natural alternatives.

Kennedy’s position on synthetic dyes aligns it, unusually, with conventional scientific consensus, a deviation from his controversial story of promotion of the invention of the embedding vaccine, minimizing the worst birds of birds of birds of birds of birds of birds of the nation and birds of village of suggestive birds.

The opposition of the industry can still arise. Food manufacturers have pressed historical against stricter regulations, but Lurie believes that resistance may be silent this time. “The question with which the industries are fighting now is whether or not to oppose this, and you know, the signs that I see that they can absorb it in the end,” said Lurie.

The “lukewarm” statements cited when Red 3 was prohibited and the limited response when Kennedy first warned that he would point to the dyes. “I think they are ready to change,” Kennedy said. “They want clear guidelines, they want to know what they can and can’t do, and we will give them that.”