Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After Hours.

Today, die hard, artificial food dye links to cancer, ADD, and more.

Artificial dyes and other chemical additives in our food

could be on the chopping block when the new Trump administration begins its second term,

partly on the promise to make America healthy again.

But some states have already been moving to ban various chemicals,

and that's the topic of my cover story on full measure Sunday, December 15th.

In today's podcast, we will hear some details from Sarah Sorsher of the Consumer Group Center for Science in the Public Interest.

It's one of two dozen consumer groups that two years ago petitioned the FDA to ban red dye number three.

Can you briefly explain in a paragraph what Center for Science and the Public Interest is and does?

We are your Food and Health Watchdog. We're a consumer advocacy

organization. We were founded in 1970, and we have a dual mission of educating consumers and advocating

for a safer food system. Do they take any industry money? We are funded solely through foundations

and through individual supporters. We do not take government grants and we do not

take funding from the food industry. Okay. We're here in part to talk today about food dyes.

And without asking you to do like an extensive history, can you just briefly hit on a few bullet points as to when we

started to understand when there came to be some controversy about what food dyes might do?

Yeah, food dyes have been tied to neurobehavioral risks in certain children.

Like ADD?

We're talking about ADHD-like symptoms, so inattention, restlessness, difficulty concentrating.

And this can cause issues in the classroom and for kids at home.

Have there also been concerns about cancer?

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