Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm
Mihies@programming.dev 2 months agoIt’ll take at least until 2028 apparently. That’s really late.
Comment on US bans controversial red food dye, decades after scientists raised alarm
Mihies@programming.dev 2 months agoIt’ll take at least until 2028 apparently. That’s really late.
ogmios@sh.itjust.works 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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.
TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 months ago
Do you mean the Food and Drug Administration regulator? The one that’s about to be gutted in a week?
What about people getting cancer for a company’s benefit is key to a “functional society” to you?
emzili@programming.dev 2 months ago
What a ridiculous response, the dye’s link to cancer has been known for decades. The EU banned use of it in 1994, over thirty years ago, and its already banned in China and Japan. Trying to paint a government ban of a known carcinogen as “big daddy government running peoples lives” is pure idiocy.