HHS Sec. RFK Jr.: We Want Dyes Out of Food, Science on the Dyes Is Overwhelming

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RFK JR.: “The science on the dyes is so overwhelming. They're making products now in this country that have the dyes in them, like Froot Loops, for example. And you buy the same product in Canada and it doesn't have the dyes. You buy the same product in Europe and it doesn't have the dyes. So there are a lot of ingredients. And one of the things that we're doing is we've launched a review of the GRAS standards, and we're going to get rid of the GRAS standards for most products. The GRAS standards is a standard that was adopted in 1958. It was adopted because when FDA was created to regulate food, there were foods that were generally recognized as safe, GRAS, generally recognized as safe, like flour, like dairy, like eggs. And they didn't want to make companies test those products, so they created that designation. But that designation was expanded by an industry and began taking advantage of it so that any new chemical that they want to add to our food is generally recognized as safe and gets no review.”