Where are the FDA & AAP on Food Dyes?
The UK has just banned six artificial food additives for their connection to behavioral issues in humans (it’s not just children.) Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the FDA and AAP choose to appease chemical companies and pharma friends who make hyperactivity drugs. What? Remove food dyes and help kids sit still in school? No! We need to ply American children with drugs! And make sure they are all coated in pretty colors! Most of us who read Age of Autism do not feed our kids artificial colors. But the average American consumer doses her child with chemicals from the rainbow colored morning cereal, to the neon pink yogurt snack through the bright blue bedtime toothpaste. Parents need to effect change with their pocketbooks. Read the full article from The Daily Mail HERE. Ministers have backed a ban on six food additives linked to hyperactivity in children. The decision follows a call from the Food Standards Agency earlier this year for the food industry voluntarily to remove the chemicals.
