May 16, 2026 · 19 min · 15 segments
What’s actually changing under the MAHA movement and current administration? In this bonus episode follow-up to Stacy's conversation with Lara Adler, Stacy gets nerdy with us and breaks down the…
It's all me, so it might be a little bit boring, but I mean, we're talking about regulatory changes, so why would it be anything but boring? [laughs] Let's start with synthetic food dyes, a topic that we did talk about on the show.
But nothing has actually changed or been regulatory implemented, except that some companies have been encouraged to make pledges that they will make changes in the future.
So we see some regulatory processes, hopefully in the works, but we're looking at mostly voluntary pledges.
The health concern I'm gonna address in each of these topics, um, I think we, you know, we addressed it with the synthetic food dyes.
But really, uh, what the largest health concern for food dyes is for child behavior concerns in ultra-processed foods in general, but really from a synthetic food dye perspective is the largest concern there.
It's all me, so it might be a little bit boring, but I mean, we're talking about regulatory changes, so why would it be anything but boring? [laughs] Let's start with synthetic food dyes, a topic that we did talk about on the show.
But nothing has actually changed or been regulatory implemented, except that some companies have been encouraged to make pledges that they will make changes in the future.
So we see some regulatory processes, hopefully in the works, but we're looking at mostly voluntary pledges.
The health concern I'm gonna address in each of these topics, um, I think we, you know, we addressed it with the synthetic food dyes.
But really, uh, what the largest health concern for food dyes is for child behavior concerns in ultra-processed foods in general, but really from a synthetic food dye perspective is the largest concern there.
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