Yellow # 5

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On 6 September 2007, the British Food Standards Agency revised advice on certain
artificial food additives, including Yellow # 5 (E102).

Professor Jim Stevenson from Southampton University, and author of the report,
said:

"This has been a major study investigating an important area of research. The
results
suggest that consumption of certain mixtures of artificial food colours and
sodium
benzoate preservative are associated with increases in hyperactive behaviour in
children."

On 10 April 2008, the Food Standards Agency called for a voluntary removal of
the colors
(but not sodium benzoate) by 2009. In addition, it recommended that there should
be
action to phase them out in food and drink in the European Union (EU) over a
specified
period.

The EFSA (European Food Standards Agency) has reviewed the Southampton Study and
found the tests inconclusive and recommended no action in the EU pending further
studies on colorants.

Dr. Ben Feingold implicated this colorant in a 1973 hypothesis on hyperactivity,
but was
cleared of this effect after extensive testing by the colorant manufacturing
industry.

The use of tartrazine is banned in Norway, and was also banned in Austria and
Germany
until the ban was overturned by a European Union directive.

The United Kingdom's Food Standards Agency called in April 2008 for a voluntary
phase-
out of tartrazine along with five other colorings, due to a reported link with
hyperactivity in
children.

Organic foods typically use betacarotene as an additive when yellow color is
desired and
more use has been made of annatto for non-organic foods.


Sources:

http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Tartrazine-9927619
http://www.foodreactions.org/allergy/additives/100.html#Tests
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?
db=pubmed&uid=7965420&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6979976.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7340426.stm


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