Date Published:
1 June 2009 |
Update on products free of colours associated with hyperactivity
The Agency has updated its list of product ranges that do not contain the six
food colours associated with possible hyperactivity in young children. A further
two manufacturers producing product lines free of the colours have been added
to the list.
The list includes both companies whose product ranges have never contained
the six colours and product ranges that have been reformulated to remove the
colours. The colours, identified by a Southampton University study financed
by the Food Standards Agency, are:
* sunset yellow FCF (E110)
* quinoline yellow (E104)
* carmoisine (E122)
* allura red (E129)
* tartrazine (E102)
* ponceau 4R (E124)
The product lines added to the list are Fox's biscuit products, manufactured
by Northern Foods, and Thorntons products, manufactured by Thorntons plc.
The Agency is publicising the product ranges to encourage the food industry
to participate in the voluntary ban. The voluntary ban was agreed to by Ministers
late last year.
Consumers who are particularly concerned about the presence of the colours
should continue to check labels, especially in the case of products with a long
shelf-life where the availability of reformulated products may vary.
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