Scientist Whose Work Led FDA To Ban Food Dye Says Agency Overstated Risk.
Scientist Whose Work Led FDA To Ban Food Dye Says Agency Overstated Risk.
Almost 40 years ago, Joseph Borzelleca published a study on red dye No. 3, a petroleum-based food coloring. The FDA cited his work to ban the additive in January. But Borzelleca says it’s safe.
When the FDA announced in January, before President Joe Biden’s term ended, that it would ban a dye called red dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs, the federal agency cited just one 1987 study on rats to support its action.
You mean the scientist who, as the article says, "represented cigarette maker R.J. Reynolds in negotiations with the Department of Health and Human Services about cigarette additives, according to a 1984 corporate memo"? Yeah, I'm sure this guy is completely unbiased towards corporate interests.
"and then we'll put oil and all kinds of weird stuff in all of the food, so then we can charge extra for anything that's just made with... Like...actual food. It'll be super profitable, guys."
This really might be the worst timeline.