Utterly backwards attitude. Ingredients should be proven <i>safe</i>, not have government agencies play whack-a-mole figuring out what is harmful, while the food industry synthesizes new substances they will tout as having no research saying they are harmful.<p>That's how it works in Europe.
This posting title is misleading and needs to be edited. The actual title is "RFK Jr. wants artificial dyes out of America’s food, but it’s not clear they’re harmful, scientist says".<p>It isn't cool to make things into clickbait on HN.
The standard for whether a human child can consume a food should be proof that something is <i>harmless</i> rather than accepting corporations at their word and only banning if something is proved to be <i>harmful</i>
whoever that scientist is should have their "scientist" badge removed because a quick google search finds "research that says artificial dyes are harmful" right here:<p><a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23026007/" rel="nofollow">https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23026007/</a>