No, he's wrong here, too. The FD&C colors are about as safe as food additives get. Some have extremely weak negatives, hard to detect without huge surveys and p

No, he's wrong here, too. The FD&C colors are about as safe as food additives get. Some have extremely weak negatives, hard to detect without huge surveys and powerful statistics. Banning all of them outright is absurd. I'm more interested in something later in the article: "eliminate a loophole that lets food and beverage companies bring new ingredients to market without agency oversight". It's remarkable how little companies have to do to bring in a new food additive. But that loophole is a much bigger deal for supplements, rather than food. Food is just food, but supplements are supposed to have beneficial effects which are practically never true. The FDA has rules, but they're widely ignored, and even when practiced allow a lot of latitude for weasel words. Many people -- including Kennedy -- believe in the value of a lot of things with no science behind them. At best, it's a waste of money. At worst, it's actively killing people.