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Subcommittee advances bill to restrict synthetic food dyes in school meals after medical testimony
Summary
House Bill 134, proposing restrictions on Red No. 40 (and related synthetic dyes in school food), was advanced by the subcommittee after physicians and food-safety advocates testified that clinical and mechanistic studies link synthetic dyes to adverse neurobehavioral effects in some children.
The House Education Administration Subcommittee voted to send House Bill 134 to the full Education Committee after testimony from medical and food-safety experts urging state-level action to limit synthetic food dyes in school meals.
Representative Davis, sponsor of HB 134, told the subcommittee the bill is intended to remove red dye No. 40 from meals served in public schools because, the sponsor said, evidence links that additive to behavioral and attentional problems in some children. The sponsor said the goal is to reduce…
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