RFK Jr.'s Battle Against Synthetic Food Dye: Will M&M's, Skittles Keep Their Colors? - General Mills (NYSE:GIS), Conagra Brands (NYSE:CAG)

M&M’s and Skittles maker resists RFK Jr’s demand to remove synthetic dyes from candies

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s campaign to eliminate synthetic food dyes from the American food supply is facing stiff resistance.

State introduces new law that could change how your food is labeled: 'Will have an impact on the entire marketplace'

A new food labeling law out of Texas is making waves — and not just in the Lone Star State. In June, Gov. Greg Abbott signed a bill requiring warning labels on food and drink products that contain any of 44 additives banned or restricted in other countries. According to KXAN, the warning, to be displayed prominently on packages starting in 2027, reads: "WARNING: This product contains an ingredient that is not recommended for human consumption by…

Kennedy’s battle against food dyes hits a roadblock: M&M’s

The health secretary used peer pressure to persuade food-makers to nix synthetic dyes. The candy industry is holding out, arguing consumers like bright sweets.

RFK Jr. faces down M&M’s

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may have finally met his match: the green M&M. Mars, which manufactures various popular candies including M&M’s recently announced it will be changing direction from its 2016 goal of removing “all artificial colors from its human food portfolio globally”… because Americans like their candy Red 40 red, rather than beet-red. The Health and Human Services Secretary has a plan to remove American children’s spoons from their “to…

RFK Jr Has a Problem: the Synthetic Food Dyes He’s Trying to Eliminate Are in Candy Beloved by Trump

From the jump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s alliance with Donald Trump has been fraught: the former hates fast food and artificial additives, while the latter is known for his love of burgers and Diet Coke. Nowhere has that tension been more clear than in the newly-minted Health and Human Services secretary's war on synthetic food dyes, which is his first battle in what he's framing as a war to reconstitute the United States' ultraprocessed food syst…

RFK Jr.'s Battle Against Synthetic Food Dye: Will M&M's, Skittles Keep Their Colors? - General Mills (NYSE:GIS), Conagra Brands (NYSE:CAG)