A Drive To Convince FDA To Ban Synthetic Dyes In Food

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Hi All,

If you have any input on the ill effects of synthetic dyes in food, here's your chance to make your voice heard, but they're only interested in any negative effects that you might have noticed in your children as they were growing up.

http://www.cspinet.org/new/200808211.html

One day, a few years ago, my brother mentioned that two of his daughters had fairly significant allergic responses to yellow dye no. 5. The next time I drank some Gatorade, (with yellow no. 5), I checked my heart rate, and noticed that in just a few minutes after drinking about a pint or so, my heart rate went up significantly, (I've forgotten the actual numbers). I had never noticed that effect before, (because I never looked for it). Ever since then, I've tried to avoid yellow no. 5, whenever possible. Nobody needs that stuff, but they keep putting it in foods, just the same, because it looks neat, and it's legal.

Tex