Unsafe Food Additives – PART 2 – Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 food dyes

In the 1990s, FDA scientists developed new analytical methods that found worrisome amounts of the carcinogen benzidine in Yellow 5 and Yellow 6 food dyes. The FDA’s response to its own discovery of a carcinogen in the second and third most-widely-used dyes? It hasn’t done any tests since, let alone warn the public, ban the […]

Unsafe Food Additives – PART 1 – Trans fats

Walter Willett, chairman of the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health, estimated that trans fat was causing tens of thousands of fatal heart attacks annually. So in 2004, The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) petitioned the FDA to ban partially hydrogenated oil. Eight years later, the FDA still has […]