FDA: Food industry will phase out petroleum-based dyes

Published April 22, 2025 5:41pm ET



Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary outlined a plan that they said will remove petroleum-based dyes from food, a key objective of the Make America Healthy Again movement.

“Nobody wants to eat petroleum, everybody knows that caused health problems,” Kennedy said at a press event on Tuesday. “And so we can act on that now.”

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