Rory Watson BMJ 29th March 2008, p 687The European Food Safety Authority has rejected suggestions in a study by researchers at Southampton University last year of a link between hyper activity in children and two mixtures of food colours and the preservative sodium benzoate (Lancet 20O7; vol 370; pp 1560-7).The study, which was commissioned by…
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The Food Commission magazine, Food Magazine has several good websitesincludingAction on Additives www.actiononadditives.comwhich lists products and additives.
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It has been claimed , originally by Ben Feingold more than 30 years ago that artificial food colours and other food additives affect behaviour in children.The principle effect of artificial food colours and other food additives is said to cause overactive, impulsive, and inattentive behaviour, i.e. hyperactivity. A pattern of behaviour that has substantial individual…
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