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Artificial colours ban urged for Europe
12 Apr 2008
A food watchdog has called for a Europe-wide ban on additives linked to hyperactive behaviour in children.
The UK's Food Standards Agency (FSA) has urged the government to approach the EU about enforcing the ban next year.
The move follows a recent report which linked six colourings, commonly found in products such as sweets, drinks and processed food, to hyperactive behaviour in youngsters.
Carried out by scientists at the University of Southampton, the research claimed that the number of hyperactive children could be prevented by one third if food additives were banned.
Speaking at a board meeting this week, FSA chair Dame Deirdre Hutton said there was mounting evidence to support the removal of colourings from food.
"We would like to see the use of colours phased out over a period. That does require mandatory action by the EU," she said.
The comments were echoed by Monique Goyens, head of the European consumers' association BEUC, who said it was "unacceptable" for potentially harmful substances to be on the market when they appeared to have "no added value at all" except to colour food.
The artificial colours in question are tartrazine (E102); quinoline yellow (E104); sunset yellow (E110); carmoisine (E122); ponceau 4R (E124); and allura red (E129).
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