Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Better late than never. Great to see some positive news.
Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Better late than never. Great to see some positive news.
Mihies@programming.dev 6 days ago
It’ll take at least until 2028 apparently. That’s really late.
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
It’s kind of understandable though. It would be pretty shitty to tell companies using completely legal means that they have to immediately change their products and methods or shut down.
Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Any company with competent or moral leadership should have been phasing this out before it was legislated. The information was available for a long time. I don’t think it’s unreasonable to give short timelines. As you said above though, it’s good news so we can focus on that.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 6 days ago
Yeah they should be able to wind down the cancer doses in an orderly fashion. We wouldn’t want to hurt their EBITDA
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Yea man, lets swing around the power of government wildly to conform with whatever the headlines say today, absolutely and without mercy. I’m sure that will create a functional society.