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Hyper active kids could do for the BattenburgThursday 10 Apr 2008 Reporter: Nicey |
 |  | Whilst all the attention today is focused on the teacake and its VAT woes another story which might be even more important is in danger of slipping under the radar (in the manner of Hobbits evading the gaze of Sauron at the end of the Return of the King (actually I'm not sure that it ever did end)). A European food watchdog has research that indicates a link with commonly used food colourings and hyper activity in children who had consumed them. | In the UK the Food Standards Agency has today advised that it would like to see the complete removal of the six additives, E102 Tartrazine, E104 Quinoline yellow, E110 Sunset yellow, E122 Carmoisine, E124 Ponceau 4R and E129 Allura red AC from foods. However, that would require Europe wide mandatory action which could take years to come about. In the meanwhile the FSA would like to see manufactures voluntarily remove them.
Naturally derived alternatives have such as Annato for yellow and Beetroot red are available, and have been used increasingly by manufacturers keen to free their products from artificial colours. However, even these are not with out their problems both technically and nutritionally. So it may be that many products will be forced to radically change their appearance or be withdrawn altogether. Battenburgs and Pink wafers beware. |
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