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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Discouraging use of artificial dye is a good idea. It interferes with people’s ability to make health conscious choices. Requiring labeling would be a great start.

    Thing is they’re not banning all dyes, they want “natural” dyes used instead. But “natural” does not necessarily mean better or safer.

    Food dye is used to cover up a lot of food crime.

    source? i did a brief search but didn’t see anything about it.

    Most of us wouldn’t eat food that needs to be dyed to look safe to eat, if it weren’t dyed, if we had a choice.

    You can look at it from a different angle. If there’s nothing actually wrong with the food other than appearance, then food dye prevents food waste.

    also:

    https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/why-did-the-fda-ban-red-dye-3/

    There is a deeper political issue here as well that I will not get into, but just point out. The recent Supreme Court decision ending Chevron Deference may have played a role here. The question is – who interprets federal regulations? The Chevron Deference standard says that the experts working in the relevant agency would be given deference when interpreting the law. For example, the FDA could determine how to apply the Delaney Clause based upon an expert level understanding of the complexities of toxicity research. The SC ended such deference, meaning that regulations can be interpreted by the courts without deference to experts. One has to wonder if this otherwise odd decision by the FDA was a response to this.

    setting the precedent to remove expert opinion of federal law and replace it with court opinion is not good.