California Environmental Protection Agency

A 2007 study from the University of Southampton was strong enough that Europe now requires a warning label on foods that contain those two dyes.

In 2021, a review in the California Environmental Protection Agency came to similar conclusions.

On top of that, these dyes carry a documented contamination concern with benzidine.

a known human carcinogen.

In 2011, an FDA advisory committee determined there wasn't enough evidence to establish a causal relationship between dyes and hyperactivity in the general population, though they acknowledged that some children with ADHD might be sensitive to them.

A 2021 California Environmental Protection Agency review found that children are not only likely exceeding safe levels of food coloring additives, but also found an association between food dye consumption and increased behavioral problems, including ADHD symptoms.

Beyond behavioral concerns, some dyes have been linked to more serious health problems.

Red No. 3, for example, was banned in cosmetics and externally applied drugs in 1990 after studies linked it to thyroid tumors in laboratory animals.

He was raised mostly in Australia, where his family ran a tropical fish breeding business in the 1960s, and he spent his entire life since then protecting it.

He founded Santa Monica Baykeeper, and in 2003, he was appointed Secretary of California Environmental Protection Agency, later serving as Cabinet Secretary and Chief Policy Advisor for to the governor.

He also was the architect of California's Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, the Hydrogen Highway Network, and the Million Solar Roofs Initiative.

He then went on to found the nonprofit Seventh Generation Advisors and served as CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.