This week, the Trump administration’s Food and Drug Administration pressed food manufacturers to speed up their phase-out of synthetic Red No. 3, while also announcing approval of a natural blue food dye. This follows the FDA’s approval of three other natural food colors in May and a joint FDA and Department of Health and Human Services announcement in April that the administration will phase out all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply. The Trump administration stated its intention to facilitate the production of healthy food when it established the Make America Healthy Again Commission in February.
It is a win.
