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04/12/2008: "Artificial colors lower IQ in children"

Researchers at Southampton University said developmental damage from seven food additives could lower a child's IQ by up to five points, The Daily Telegraph reported Monday.

Britain's Food Standards Agency will meet Thursday to consider recommendations that manufacturers voluntarily remove six of the food additives from their products -- tartrazine, quinoline yellow, sunset yellow, carmoisine, ponceau, and allura red.

Further research has been suggested for the seventh additive, the preservative sodium benzoate, the newspaper said.

[ But it was cheaper and more profitable to make fake food. What, you mean it has consequences? But we were just fulfilling our freedom, our dream of wealth, and no one told us we had to care about what it did to others... ]

http://www.physorg.com/news126853775.html