FDA’s Online List of Processors Removing Color Additives
The FDA has created a web page listing all the food & beverage companies committed to removing FD&C certified colors from their products. They call it "Tracking Food Industry Pledges to Remove Petroleum-Based Food Dyes."
If you ought to be on it, let them know. (You should let us know, too; we’ll publish a story.) Presumably they will update the list.
There are 16 company names on the chart, most of which we have mentioned before: Conagra, Danone, General Mills, Hershey, J.M. Smucker, Kellanova, Mars, Nestle, PepsiCo, Kraft Heinz, Tyson and WK Kellogg. Some should be qualified – Mars, for example, promised only optional versions of four candy products that will be available online only.
New names to our eyes are Grupo Bimbo, McCormick, PIM Brands and Walmart. And while there is a single listing for “International Dairy Foods Assn.,” there are seven companies mentioned under that association: A2 Milk Co., Abbott, Blue Bell Creameries, Horizon Organic, Tillamook and Schreiber.
The right-hand column lists their specific promises and deadline dates. Here's the web page.
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Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.