No one is even trying to explain why the government allowed a known cancer-causing chemical to be put into food for years.
Remember that this is the same government that is so concerned about your health they force you to take vaccines and stop smoking cigarettes.
They won’t prevent corporations from dumping PFAS in the groundwater, they won’t investigate obesity, but they’ll inject you with an experimental gene therapy and charge you $9 for a pack of cigarettes to save your health.
The U.S. on Wednesday banned the use of a synthetic food dye that gives some candies, cakes and certain oral medications a cherry-red color, following evidence that the dye causes cancer in laboratory rats.
The ban by the Food and Drug Administration on the Red No. 3 dye in food items comes more than three decades after it was barred in cosmetics.
“Why you would say something can’t be in cosmetics, but you can eat it makes no sense to me. I am very pleased that they finally have done what I think they should have done years ago,” said petitioner Linda Birnbaum, former director at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and National Toxicology Program.
Consumer advocacy groups have been pushing for its ban for several years, including a petition in 2022 to review studies that show high exposure to the additive may cause cancer in male rats.
RFK was saying he was going to ban this, and they’re just doing it preemptively.
Hopefully, he’ll be able to ban a lot more things.
I’m not holding my breath on the Trump people doing anything, but I’m hopeful.