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House passes bill to restrict certain synthetic additives in school food
Summary
The Michigan House passed House Bill 4369 on July 1, 2025, a bill to amend the state Food Law to prohibit specified synthetic dyes and other additives in foods provided in schools; sponsor Representative Paquette framed the measure as a child-health and learning issue.
The Michigan House of Representatives on July 1, 2025 passed House Bill 4369, a measure to amend the Food Law to prohibit specified synthetic dyes and other additives in foods provided in public schools.
Representative Paquette, sponsor of the bill, told colleagues the measure targets ingredients ‘‘found to be detrimental to health and brain development’’ and argued school-provided food bought with taxpayer dollars should not contain those substances. ‘‘Food is medicine,’’ Paquette said. ‘‘We are what we eat.’’ He listed ingredients the bill would bar from school meals and snacks, including propylparaben, synthetic dyes,…
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