CSPI letter to Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials Committee in support of bill AB 2316
The Center for Science in the Public Interest is writing to urge your committee to support AB 2316, a bill that prohibits California public schools from serving food containing harmful food colors. In particular, this bill prohibits schools from serving food containing Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2, or Green 3, which are synthetic dyes that the California Environmental Protection Agency confirmed can cause neurobehavioral difficulties in some children. The bill also prohibits schools from serving food containing titanium dioxide, which the European Union no longer allows in food due to its links to genotoxicity (DNA damage). This bill is needed to protect California’s school-aged children.
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