RFK Jr pledges to verify youngsters get 'actual meals,' not 'poison'

[ad_1] U.S. Well being and Human Companies (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. mentioned the banning of greater than half a dozen synthetic food dyes is only the start as he works to confront America’s power well being disaster.

"We'll do actual science, and we're gonna do science exactly on the problems that American[s] care about. Ensuring their youngsters are getting meals that is not poison. The meals our youngsters are consuming at this time shouldn't be actually meals. It is food-like substances," he mentioned on "Jesse Watters Primetime."

RFK Jr., alongside Nationwide Institutes of Well being Director Jay Bhattacharya and Meals and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary , introduced Tuesday in Washington, D.C., plans to section out petroleum-based artificial dyes within the nation's meals provide.

Nationwide Institutes of Well being Director Jayanta Bhattacharya, Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and Meals and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary arrive for a information convention on the Well being and Human Companies Division on April 22, 2025 in Washington, D.C. ((Picture by Andrew Harnik/Getty Photos))

The transfer is a part of a broader effort by regulators to reexamine what People devour. The FDA banned Pink Dye No. 3 from use in meals earlier this yr, citing links to cancer in some animals.

The FDA and HHS plan to start the method of revoking authorization for 2 artificial meals colorings – Citrus Pink No. 2 and Orange B – throughout the coming months.

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It’s additionally working to eradicate six remaining artificial dyes, reminiscent of Inexperienced No. 3, Pink No. 40 and Yellow No. 5, from the meals provide by the tip of 2026.

Substances, together with synthetic dyes Pink No. 40, Yellow No. 5 and Blue No. 1, listed on a field of Froot Loops cereal, bought within the US, organized within the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Wednesday, Could 22, 2024. The 2 corporations fashioned after Kellogg Co. break up final yr at the moment are dealing with new rules on using synthetic meals dyes, leaving them to chart their very own programs in a controversial space for extremely processed meals, particularly these designed for youths. (Photographer: Lucia Buricelli/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos)

The FDA is fast-tracking the evaluate of different pure alternate options to artificial meals dyes, reminiscent of butterfly pea flower extract, according to a press release from HHS.

RFK Jr. informed Fox Information host Jesse Watters that the Trump administration is working to offer youngsters "actual meals once more."

"We have the very best power illness burden of any nation on the earth. When my uncle was president, 3% of People had power illness. Right now, it is 60%," he mentioned. "Seventy-four p.c of our youngsters can not qualify for army service. We have now fertility charges which can be simply spiraling."

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The previous 2024 Impartial presidential candidate famous that the substances in Froot Loops 20 years in the past had been very totally different from these used at this time.

"Right now, we use chemicals in Froot Loops which can be banned in just about each nation on the earth. So, in the event you purchase Froot Loops at this time in Canada, it's made with vegetable dyes. In case you purchase it right here in the USA, it is made with petroleum synthetics," RFK Jr. defined.

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He added that American customers ought to pay attention to the substances being added to their meals and any potential well being dangers they could pose.