{"id":35733,"date":"2025-03-11T16:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/at-least-a-dozen-us-states-rush-to-ban-common-food-dyes-citing-health-risks\/"},"modified":"2025-03-11T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T16:17:07","slug":"at-least-a-dozen-us-states-rush-to-ban-common-food-dyes-citing-health-risks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/at-least-a-dozen-us-states-rush-to-ban-common-food-dyes-citing-health-risks\/","title":{"rendered":"At least a dozen US states rush to ban common food dyes, citing health risks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RFK Jr\u2019s \u2018Maha\u2019 giving fresh momentum to longtime efforts to outlaw additives, which is now a bipartisan movement<\/p>\n<p>At least a dozen US states \u2013 from traditionally conservative Oklahoma to liberal-leaning New York \u2013 are rushing to pass laws outlawing commonly used dyes and other chemical additives in foods, citing a need to protect public health.<\/p>\n<p>In one of the most far-reaching efforts, West Virginia last week <a href=\"https:\/\/westvirginiawatch.com\/2025\/03\/05\/wv-senate-passes-bill-banning-artificial-dyes-in-food-opponents-say-its-overreach\/\">advanced a sweeping ban<\/a> on a range of common food dyes that have been linked to health problems, particularly for children, with overwhelming support from both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republicans<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/democrats\">Democrats<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2025\/mar\/11\/food-dye-ban-bill\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RFK Jr\u2019s \u2018Maha\u2019 giving fresh momentum to longtime efforts to outlaw additives, which is now a bipartisan movement At least a dozen US states \u2013 from traditionally conservative Oklahoma to liberal-leaning New York \u2013 are rushing to pass laws outlawing commonly used dyes and other chemical additives in foods, citing a need to protect public &#8230; <a title=\"At least a dozen US states rush to ban common food dyes, citing health risks\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/11\/at-least-a-dozen-us-states-rush-to-ban-common-food-dyes-citing-health-risks\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about At least a dozen US states rush to ban common food dyes, citing health risks\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}