Warns against
Calley Means on Synthetic Food Dyes: warns against
Calley Means supports phasing out synthetic food dyes — red dyes have already been removed — and counts the phaseout among the MAHA food agenda’s year-one wins. He detailed the effort alongside FDA Deputy Commissioner for Human Foods Kyle Diamantas on The Ultimate Human #260 (April 2026).
His stated reasoning: synthetic dyes are unnecessary cosmetic chemicals in the food supply, and removing them is a foundational, broadly popular step toward rebuilding trust in what Americans eat. He presents the dye phaseout as proof that the government can move quickly on food chemicals when it chooses to.
The dye phaseout is one of the less contested pieces of the MAHA food agenda — removing artificial colors has drawn far less mainstream-medicine pushback than the seed-oil and saturated-fat fights — but the scientific case linking specific dyes to specific harms remains debated in the literature. Means’s position is recorded as his attributed stance.
What Means says
- Means supports phasing out synthetic food dyes; red dyes have been removed.
- He counts the phaseout as a year-one MAHA win.
- He frames dye removal as a foundational step toward rebuilding trust in the food supply.
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