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As U.S. health officials announced plans to phase out eight artificial dyes from our food supply
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Fox News' Richard G. Cobas explains which products are being targeted and how they're being replaced
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From grocery store aisles to the candy counter, colorful food on shelves have been appealing to kids of all ages for decades
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But for anyone trying to avoid colorful cereals and gummy bears without many healthy alternatives
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they sometimes have no choice. But that's about to change. They want to eat petroleum. They ought to add it themselves at home
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But they shouldn't be feeding it to the rest of us. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. making a promise that he would crack down on colorful additives in food
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As part of his Make America Healthy Again agenda, Kennedy, along with the newly confirmed head of the Food and Drug Administration, Marty McCary
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kept a promise today announcing that by the end of 2026, the FDA will eliminate eight commonly
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used petroleum synthetic food dyes from the U food supply For the last 50 years American children have increasingly been living in a toxic soup of synthetic chemicals The scientific community has conducted a number of studies raising concerns about the correlation between petroleum synthetic dyes and several health conditions
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And it's not just the candy, like the jelly beans and the gummy bears, that contain these synthetic food dyes
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Walk into any grocery store and down any grocery store aisle, whether it's cereal or baked goods, pick up a label and you're bound to read the ingredients and find red, blues and yellows
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But if RFK Jr. gets his way in two years, these shells will look a lot different
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They're really just there to make the colors vibrant and supposedly appealing
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Before President Trump took office, the FDA banned red dye number three after studies linked the dye to cancer in animals
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Dr. Melissa Ring says there are healthy alternatives companies can use when dying food like turmeric or carrot juice
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ingredients that wouldn't be considered harmful to one's health. I think we're going to see a difference. I think there's no reason we shouldn't be able to do this
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Richard Giacobis, Fox 5 News
