FDA relaxes labeling rules on 'no artificial colors' claims amid crackdown
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FDA announces Thursday it will relax regulations allowing companies to label products as 'no artificial colors' when using natural or plant-based coloring.
Bonny Chu is a Digital Production Assistant at Fox News Digital.
"Companies will now have flexibility to claim products contain ‘no artificial colors’ when the products do not contain petroleum-based colors," the FDA said. "In the past, companies were generally only able to make such claims when their products had no added color whatsoever — whether derived from natural sources or otherwise."
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised the policy shift, saying it will ease the transition for companies while advancing efforts to make food safer.
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