{"id":66841,"date":"2026-02-20T09:59:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/anger-as-trump-fda-retreats-from-plan-to-ban-artificial-colors-in-food\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:59:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T14:59:08","slug":"anger-as-trump-fda-retreats-from-plan-to-ban-artificial-colors-in-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/anger-as-trump-fda-retreats-from-plan-to-ban-artificial-colors-in-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Anger as Trump FDA retreats from plan to ban artificial colors in food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say new labeling could deceive consumers as dangerous substances still allowed under new rules<\/p>\n<p>In a further retreat from its pledge to ban artificial dyes from food, Donald Trump\u2019s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it would loosen labeling requirements to allow companies to state \u201cno artificial colors\u201d, even though products may contain some dangerous substances such as titanium dioxide.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA in early February <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fda.gov\/news-events\/press-announcements\/fda-takes-new-approach-no-artificial-colors-claims\">announced<\/a> it would allow food makers to claim \u201cno artificial colors\u201d as long as the dyes are not petroleum-based, but health experts say even some naturally based additives present health risks, and the labeling would deceive consumers.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/20\/fda-artificial-colors-food\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts say new labeling could deceive consumers as dangerous substances still allowed under new rules In a further retreat from its pledge to ban artificial dyes from food, Donald Trump\u2019s Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it would loosen labeling requirements to allow companies to state \u201cno artificial colors\u201d, even though products may contain &#8230; <a title=\"Anger as Trump FDA retreats from plan to ban artificial colors in food\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/20\/anger-as-trump-fda-retreats-from-plan-to-ban-artificial-colors-in-food\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Anger as Trump FDA retreats from plan to ban artificial colors in food\">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-66841","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\/66841","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=66841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}