There’s still so much work to do in Making America Healthy Again, but the FDA’s announcement that Red Dye 3 will be banned in food production by January 2027 and medicine by January 2028 makes me so happy.
Even if it is a ploy by the FDA to show their soon-to-be-leaders that they shouldn’t get fired.
Red Dye 3 isn’t an easy chemical. None of us need it. When you realize it has been banned in cosmetics for nearly 4 decades, you have to ponder…how was it still allowed in food and drugs? Think how many pain meds, cold meds, and children’s medications contain it. When people are sick, they end up taking toxins into their bodies. If you are of a certain age, you might remember chewing on red pills that showed plaque on your teeth when in elementary school. It’s still used in that. It’s also the dye choice for red pistachios.
Red Dye 3 is erythrosine, along with petroleum.
Having said all this, there is a bigger target, and we must push for it.
Red Dye 40 is the most commonly used artificial coloring in the United States.
We are getting there, but we have so much to do.
~Sarah