{"id":2641,"date":"2008-12-22T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T15:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/uk-color-free-how-us.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T10:26:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T14:26:28","slug":"uk-color-free-how-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2641","title":{"rendered":"UK Color Free? How US?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/SU-62Ur7rsI\/AAAAAAAABOk\/5wtFdWAQBBc\/s1600-h\/Dyes.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5282646330357558978\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 280px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 280px\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_HAl9r2q_-j0\/SU-62Ur7rsI\/AAAAAAAABOk\/5wtFdWAQBBc\/s320\/Dyes.jpg?w=735\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> It took <a href=\"http:\/\/www.southampton.ac.uk\/mediacentre\/news\/2007\/sep\/07_99.shtml\">this scientific article <\/a>in the journal <em>Lancet<\/em> to get anything moving. <span><\/p>\n<p>The Food Standards Agency oversees the food safety in the UK. They are calling on companies to identify all products without food additives &#8230; particularly food dyes. <\/span><br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span>Is it not incredible to you that anyone would have to prove that chemical dyes are something you should remove from the food chain?  <\/span><br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span>That said, it is heartening to see that we&#8217;re starting to develop a healthy skepticism for synthetics in our foods. <\/span><span>This represents a wonderful change in the attitude, and this new demand will drive supply into a healthy direction.  <\/span><br \/><span><\/span><br \/><span>This news story represents a case in point. The FSA is pushing a voluntary phase-out of these colors by the end of 2009, after the above study showed that feeding kids these dyes can degrade their behavior, leading to attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The research was carried out at the University of Southampton and published in The Lancet in September 2007.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nutraingredients.com\/Publications\/Food-Beverage-Nutrition\/ConfectioneryNews\/Formulation\/FSA-to-publish-list-of-additive-free-brands\/?c=dK7VLc96rvukjHUPD%2F7Qcw%3D%3D\">The summary is here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took this scientific article in the journal Lancet to get anything moving. The Food Standards Agency oversees the food safety in the UK. They are calling on companies to &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494],"tags":[291,301],"class_list":["post-2641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-children","tag-dyes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-GB","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2736,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2736","url_meta":{"origin":2641,"position":0},"title":"Dyes In Your Food","author":"Will Clower","date":"August 12, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Food companies LOVE artificial colors. They are consistent, you can make them in industrial sized tanker truck loads, and because it has nothing to do with living things, it is not subject to changes in the environment or any messy crop fluctuations.Made to eat, but unrelated to food.The problem is\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?cat=494"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2732,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2732","url_meta":{"origin":2641,"position":1},"title":"Legislating Color","author":"Will Clower","date":"August 16, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"After studies emerged linking synthetics in our food to hyperactive behavior in children, everyone said \"Huh. 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