Sen. Willie Preston is pushing to ban four chemicals from Illinois food items, including brominated vegetable oil, red dye No ...

Widely used by the food industry, emulsifiers – a type of food additive – are found in many daily foods (sliced bread, ice ...

Indeed, many food preparation techniques, such as cooking, salting, canning, and fermentation, were borne out of a motivation to reduce foodborne illness. The enhanced capabilities of the modern food ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), wants to purge harmful food additives from the food supply, one step in a plan to combat what ...

microbial contamination which made up 16.32% and excessive usage of food additives beyond permitted quantities which made up 14.99%,” China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) said via ...

The safety of food additives was established originally by studies of each chemical, which at the time was a reasonable approach. But with the increase in snack foods in the diet, particularly in ...

"Ultraprocessed, industrially manufactured, nutrient-depleted food with synthetic additives is undernourishing minors at public schools and contributing to childhood obesity." "Any taxpayer-funded ...

But red dye 3 is far from the only food coloring on the market, raising a lot of questions about what will happen with the rest of these additives going forward. Food dyes approved for use in the ...

While its cosmetic use was banned in 1990 under the Delaney Clause—a federal rule prohibiting additives that have been found to cause cancer in humans or animals—it has remained in food and ...

This document has been published in the Federal Register. Use the PDF linked in the document sidebar for the official electronic format.

But CSPI’s Principal Scientist for Food Additives and Supplements ... There are other chemicals, and going chemical by chemical — we’re talking about 10,000 chemicals that are currently ...