The food company was told Monday by US Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that he wanted to strip the artificial dye from their products.
Kennedy has committed to tackling chronic illness by overhauling US diet and food dye removal.
He encourages fast food chains to switch to beef oil instead of seed oil for fries, as reported by Breitbart News, and encourages banning additives like food colours.
Kennedy said at a gathering in Closed Door Washington, which includes CEOs of Kellogg, Smucker and General Mills, that he wrote the Trump administration's number one priority, Melissa Hockstad, president and CEO of the Consumer Brands Association and trade group that writes the trade group. I saw it ABC News.
Hockstad addressed a note to “Consumer Brands Member CEO.”
“The secretary made it clear that he would take action unless the industry was willing to be proactive in the solution,” wrote Hockstad.
Kennedy supports his push.
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A survey from last December revealed the overwhelming majority of Americans supporting reforms in the food industry and public health.
According to yougov Opinion survey Eight in ten American adults said they were helping to request nutrition education in federally funded medical schools, with 74% supporting banning certain dye-containing additives from the country's food supply.
The ban on food additives is widely supported across political spheres, polls found 74% of Democrats and 81% of Republicans support such a plan.
Similarly, 66% of Americans (including 71% of Democrats and 66% of Republicans) want the federal government to increase restrictions on the use of pesticides in agricultural products.
Last August, while supporting Trump for the president, Kennedy laid out the vision for a government regulatory body that is not controlled “by giant commercial companies” that allowed US food supplies, medicines and the environment to compromise with toxic chemicals and additives.
“Two-thirds of American adults and children suffer from chronic health issues,” Kennedy said.
“Fifty years ago, that number was less than 1%. We went from 1% to 66%.”
