Food Maker Eliminating Synthetic Dyes From Ingredients By End Of May

The institution down Jimmy Dean and Hillshire Farm nutrient products is making a cardinal constituent alteration amid a push from U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Tyson Foods will region each petroleum-based synthetic dyes from its products by nan extremity of this month.

Donnie King, president and main executive serviceman of nan Arkansas-based company, announced nan news during an net telephone connected Monday.

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"As a recognized leader successful protein, nary of nan products Tyson Foods offers done our schoolhouse nutrition programs see petroleum-based synthetic dyes arsenic ingredients," King said.

Most of nan company's retail-branded Tyson products, including its chicken nuggets, "do not incorporate immoderate of these types of dyes, and we person been proactively reformulating those fewer products that do," he said.

Tyson Foods will do distant pinch petroleum-based synthetic dyes arsenic ingredients by nan extremity of nan month, its president and CEO said this week. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston)

"We expect that our activity to destruct nan usage of petroleum-based synthetic dyes successful accumulation will beryllium completed by nan extremity of May."

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That's up of nan U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) deadline for nutrient manufacturers "to eliminate six remaining synthetic dyes – FD&C Green No. 3, FD&C Red No. 40, FD&C Yellow No. 5, FD&C Yellow No. 6, FD&C Blue No. 1 and FD&C Blue No. 2 – from nan nutrient proviso by nan extremity of adjacent year," he said. 

Tyson chickenhearted nuggets "do not incorporate immoderate of these types of dyes." (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

The FDA antecedently called for nan removal of reddish dye from foods, dietary supplements and ingested medicines successful January, arsenic Fox News Digital reported astatine nan time.

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PepsiCo's chair and main executive serviceman announced connected April 24 that its celebrated snack foods for illustration Lay's and Tostitos "will beryllium retired of artificial colors by nan extremity of this year."

The FDA has banned synthetic dyes from nan nutrient proviso by nan extremity of adjacent year. (iStock)

Tyson Foods, on pinch its subsidiaries, operates respective awesome brands, including Ball Park, Hillshire Farm, Jimmy Dean and Wright Brand.

Tyson Foods is astir apt champion known for its chickenhearted nuggets (not pictured), but it besides owns Hillshire Farm and Jimmy Dean brands. (iStock)

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A spokesperson for Tyson Foods told Fox News Digital nan institution declined to supply further comment.