{"id":23761,"date":"2025-03-11T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T17:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23761"},"modified":"2025-03-11T18:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T18:23:07","slug":"rfk-jr-rattles-food-companies-with-vow-to-rid-food-of-artificial-dyes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23761","title":{"rendered":"RFK Jr. Rattles Food Companies With Vow to Rid Food of Artificial Dyes"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mr. Kennedy told executives of major food companies that he wants synthetic colors removed from their products. \u201cDecision time is imminent,\u201d a trade group warned its members.<\/p>\n

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In his first meeting with top executives from PepsiCo, W.K. Kellogg, General Mills and other large companies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, bluntly told them that a top priority would be eliminating artificial dyes from the nation\u2019s food supply.<\/p>\n

At the Monday meeting, Mr. Kennedy emphasized that it was a \u201cstrong desire and urgent priority\u201d of the new Trump administration to rid the food system of artificial colorings.<\/p>\n

In addition, he warned the companies that they should anticipate significant change as a result of his quest for \u201cgetting the worse ingredients out\u201d of food, according to a letter from the Consumer Brands Association, a trade group. The Times reviewed a copy that was sent to the group\u2019s members after the meeting.<\/p>\n

And while Mr. Kennedy said in the meeting that he wanted to work with the industry, he also \u201cmade clear his intention to take action unless the industry is willing to be proactive with solutions,\u201d the association wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cBut to underscore, decision time is imminent,\u201d Melissa Hockstad, who attended the meeting and is the group\u2019s president, wrote in the letter.<\/p>\n

Later on Monday, Mr. Kennedy issued a directive<\/a> that would also affect food companies nationwide. He ordered the Food and Drug Administration to revise a longstanding policy that allowed companies \u2014 independent of any regulatory review \u2014 to decide that a new ingredient in the food supply was safe. Put in place decades ago, the policy was aimed at ingredients like vinegar or salt that are widely considered to be well-understood, and benign. But the designation, known as GRAS, or \u201cgenerally recognized as safe,\u201d has since grown to include a far broader array of natural and synthetic additives.<\/p>\n

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Mr. Kennedy told executives of major food companies that he wants synthetic colors removed from their products. \u201cDecision time is imminent,\u201d a trade group warned its members.In his first meeting with top executives from PepsiCo, W.K. Kellogg, General Mills and other large companies, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the health secretary, bluntly told them that a top priority would be eliminating artificial dyes from the nation\u2019s food supply.At the Monday meeting, Mr. Kennedy emphasized that it was a \u201cstrong desire and urgent priority\u201d of the new Trump administration to rid the food system of artificial colorings.In addition, he warned the companies that they should anticipate significant change as a result of his quest for \u201cgetting the worse ingredients out\u201d of food, according to a letter from the Consumer Brands Association, a trade group. The Times reviewed a copy that was sent to the group\u2019s members after the meeting.And while Mr. Kennedy said in the meeting that he wanted to work with the industry, he also \u201cmade clear his intention to take action unless the industry is willing to be proactive with solutions,\u201d the association wrote.\u201cBut to underscore, decision time is imminent,\u201d Melissa Hockstad, who attended the meeting and is the group\u2019s president, wrote in the letter.Later on Monday, Mr. Kennedy issued a directive that would also affect food companies nationwide. He ordered the Food and Drug Administration to revise a longstanding policy that allowed companies \u2014 independent of any regulatory review \u2014 to decide that a new ingredient in the food supply was safe. Put in place decades ago, the policy was aimed at ingredients like vinegar or salt that are widely considered to be well-understood, and benign. But the designation, known as GRAS, or \u201cgenerally recognized as safe,\u201d has since grown to include a far broader array of natural and synthetic additives.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23763,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23761"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23764,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23761\/revisions\/23764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}