{"id":158907,"date":"2025-03-27T02:58:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/business\/legal\/adios-to-synthetic-colors-in-food\/"},"modified":"2025-03-27T02:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T02:58:41","slug":"adios-to-synthetic-colors-in-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=158907","title":{"rendered":"Adios to Synthetic Colors in Food?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"overview\">\n<p>Our good friends Virginia and West Virginia have become the first states in the nation to restrict the availability of foods containing certain synthetic colors (or in FDA parlance, certain colors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/industry\/color-certification\/color-certification-faqs\">subject to certification<\/a>). You can read more about the particulars <a href=\"https:\/\/www.governor.virginia.gov\/newsroom\/news-releases\/2025\/march\/name-1043193-en.html\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/governor.wv.gov\/article\/governor-patrick-morrisey-signs-food-dye-legislation-law\">here<\/a>. Although the states cited concerns over safety, FDA had continued to stand behind the safety of synthetic colors \u00a0\u2013 including the recently banned Red No. 3, which fell victim to the Delaney clause. (You can read up on that decidedly unscientific standard <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/34737146\/\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>No matter. FDA\u2019s stance on the safety of synthetic colors no longer seems determinative. A couple of weeks ago, Politico <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/03\/11\/rfk-food-companies-hhs-maha-00224006\">reported<\/a> on a meeting between HHS Secretary Kennedy and food industry executives in which the Secretary pressed for discontinuance of synthetic colors. The state bans \u2013 and there are more looming \u2013 add considerable fuel to that fire.<\/p>\n<p>Lost in the face of this onslaught is the fact that the FD&amp;C Act lays out a deliberate process for revocation of the approval of a color additive. That could prompt one to explore legal theories in support of a challenge to these bans, but that presumes that a worthy challenger would be willing to step forward. In the current environment, such a challenger would need a mighty thick skin. 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