The Food and Drug Administration has said it will soon act on a longstanding petition to ban Red Dye No. 3, an artificial dye used in food in the U.S. but banned other countries.
Before she became a parent, Erin Seraydian says she didn’t give much thought to food coloring.
“Fifteen plus years ago, my sister-in-law, we were visiting them in Texas and they made a comment like, ‘The kids can’t have anything with dye in it because it makes them hyperactive.’ And my husband and I, at the time we weren’t married, we were like, “Oh, OK, you know, they must be crazy. Like that’s not a real thing,” Seraydian told me.
Years later when they had their own son, Jack, it no longer seemed “crazy.”
“Every time he had anything with dye in it, he had the hardest time focusing,” Seraydian also said. “He was more irritable, cranky, angry. And you would be surprised how many food products contain food dye. So to this day, now when he eats anything with dye in it at school and he comes home, I can tell right away and sure enough I look in his backpack and I find something that has dye in it.” […]
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