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How many artificial food dyes have been actually banned? I mean in the time where we actually had some regulations, the old days were quite wild in terms of saf
by fabian2k 1y ago
How many artificial food dyes have been actually banned? I mean in the time where we actually had some regulations, the old days were quite wild in terms of safety in all areas, so I don't think that would be a useful comparison.
- Retric 1y agoI don’t recall the exact number, but well over half that have been in common use were eventually banned. Edit Prior to this administration: Butter yellow, Green 1, Green 2, Orange 1, Orange 2, Orange B, Red 1, Red 2, Red 4, Red 32, Sudan 1, Violet 1, Yellow 1, Yellow 2, Yellow 3, Yellow 4 + some more in the really early days. EU had a longer list including Titanium dioxide.
- greygoo222 1y agoTitanium dioxide is naturally occurring.
- Retric 1y agoThe poster was using the phrase natural dye. It’s a naturally occurring non organic molecule, but it’s not naturally a white pigment. It takes a lot of processing to get that brilliant white powder and as such it’s not something our ancestors dealt with.
- hollerith 1y agoIt is not naturally occurring in the human diet.
- halJordan 1y agoThis is the same argument people use against bread, and against meat.
- hollerith 1y agoHuh? Our ancestors have been eating meat for 2 million years. We know because bones do not biodegrade so we've found many prehistoric bones with tool marks left when prehistoric people cut the meat off the bone.
- Incipient 1y agoSo is arsenic.
- dlivingston 1y agoTotally off-topic, but your comment reminded me of some lyrics to a song by one of my favorite folk singers [0]: [Weed is] jus' a plant Like poppies and sugar cane Coca and some science make some good cocaine [0]: https://youtu.be/ixE73z_a37U https://youtu.be/ixE73z_a37U
- pfexec 1y agoI'm in awe at the number of people that will go to bat for things like artificial dyes in food, only because the policy is coming from the present administration. It's just common sense. We don't need to be ingesting this shit. It's cosmetic and not needed for nutrition. Why are you feeding your child Fruit Loops and not Cheerios? I personally have known people who develop migraines after eating food with artificial dyes. We can sit here and snipe and play semantics and argue over pointless details but why bother? Just get rid of them all.
- 4d4m 1y ago+1. G.R.A.S. (generally recognized as safe) is long overdue for reform
- rightbyte 1y agoFluoride in communal drinking water is another thing I notice strange ingroup outgroup thinking in ...
- fabian2k 1y agoI want these decisions to be bases on scientific and medical data, not on gut feeling or unfounded personal belief. I have no issue with regulating specific dyes or additives in food, or groups of related chemicals. And your anecdote is not scientific data. You cannot draw any conclusions from that.
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