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In October 2023, legislators passed the California School Food Safety Act. The law will ban six of the nine FDA-approved artificial food dyes –– Red No. 40, Yellow No. 5, Yellow No. 6, Blue No ...
State lawmakers on Thursday sent a bill to Gov. Gavin Newsom to ban schools, beginning in 2028, from distributing or selling products containing six common food dyes: red No. 40, Yellow 5, Yellow ...
Known as the California School Food Safety Act, it outlaws Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2 and Green 3 from the meals, drinks and snacks served at public schools statewide.
California lawmakers have passed a first-of-its-kind bill that would ban six artificial dyes from the foods served in the state’s public schools, sending it to the governor for his signature.
Allura Red AC is a popular dye used worldwide. Annual production in 1980 was greater than 2.3 million kilograms. [5] It was originally introduced as a replacement for amaranth in the United States. [6] The European Union approved Allura Red AC as a food colorant in 1994, but EU countries' local laws banning food colorants were preserved. [7]
California public school ban [ edit ] In March 2024, a bill was proposed by Californian politician Jesse Gabriel , aiming to disallow the use of food coloring additives blue 1, blue 2, green 3, yellow 5, yellow 6, and red 40 in public schools [ 18 ] to stop food with these additives from interfering with their learning or hurt them. [ 19 ]
In a separate act passed this year, California moved to ban six of the nine FDA-approved artificial food dyes in public school food and drinks by 2027. The bill did not include red No. 3.
Erythrosine, also known as Red No. 3, is an organoiodine compound, specifically a derivative of fluorone. It is a pink dye which is primarily used for food coloring. [2] It is the disodium salt of 2,4,5,7-tetraiodofluorescein. Its maximum absorbance is at 530 nm [3] in an aqueous solution, and it is subject to photodegradation.