Secretary Kennedy on Fox News: "We Want the Dyes Out of the Foods"

We told them that we wanted the dyes out of the food. The science on the dyes is so overwhelming. They're making products now in this country that have the dyes in them, like Fruit Loops, for example. And you buy the same product in Canada, and it doesn't have the dyes. You buy the same product in Europe, and it doesn't have the dyes. One of the things that we're doing is we've launched a review of the grass standards, and we're going to get rid of the grass standards for most. It was adopted because when FDA was created to regulate food, there were foods that were generally recognized as safe. GRAs generally recognized as safe, like flour, like dairy, like eggs. And they didn't want to make companies test those products, so they created that designation. That designation was expanded. An industry began taking advantage of it so that any new chemical that they want to add to our food is generally recognized as safe and gets no review. That's why we have 10,000 ingredients in our food in this country. In Europe, they only have 400. And we have the worst chronic disease burden of any country in the world. So we are going to get rid of the grass standards for new products. We're going to go back and review all of these old ingredients to make sure that they are safe, and we're going to encourage these companies to get rid of them as quickly as possible.