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Parents, clinicians urge ban or limits on synthetic food dyes in school foods
5761363 · September 10, 2025
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Parents and clinicians testified that synthetic food dyes (e.g., Red 40, Yellow 5) can worsen attention and behavioral problems in some children and urged legislation to prohibit harmful dyes in competitive school foods.
Multiple parents, clinicians and researchers asked the Joint Committee on Public Health to prohibit certain synthetic food dyes from school-sold competitive foods and vending machines, describing links to behavioral and gastrointestinal harms. Allison Chapman and Alicia Williams described personal and family experiences in which removal of…
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