July 20, 2010 came into force on the European Union rules requiring that any product containing any of six artificial food dyes containing the mark "can adversely affect the operation and attention in children ". Like any other psychiatric diagnosis, children's hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has established an objective physiological background. According to the decision of the European Union recognizes the fact that behavioral manifestations, which psychiatrists use to diagnose a child hyperactivity, may be an objective reason - some kind of poisoning or an allergic reaction caused by chemicals, which are received by populations with certain foods. Rule number 1333/2008 of the European Parliament and the Council of Europe on December 16, 2008 indicates that the warning about the ability to provoke hyperactivity in children should be placed in containers with products containing dyes E 102, E 104, E 110, E 122, E 124, E 129. Opinion about the ability of food dyes affect behavior expressed since the 1970s, when an allergist in San Francisco, Ben Feingold found that removal of diet of patients with food food dyes has improved their condition. Subsequently numerous studies have confirmed the link between the deterioration of the behavior of some children and the presence of artificial food dyes in their diet.
A study conducted in 2004 for the UK government showed that the combination of colors, as well as the presence of sodium benzoate, are also able to affect children's behavior. As a result, British Agency for Food Standards required to implement pan-European standard warning potential buyers that the products containing the above-mentioned dyes can cause hyperactivity in children. Synthetic dyes are much cheaper than natural, as a result, many manufacturers and tend to use them. For example, due to more stringent rules, strawberry jam in "McDonalds" in Europe tint extract of fresh strawberries, while in the U.S. for that use dye "Red 40". In the UK, "Phantom" painted pumpkin and carrot extract, and in the U.S. - "Red 40" and "Yellow 6".
Bars ", Kellogg strawberry" in the U.S. stained "Red 40", "Yellow 6", "Blue 1", and in England - beetroot, red pepper extract, and vegetable annatto pigment. Perhaps the mass distribution of synthetic dyes in foods children in the U.S. may partly explain epidemic of childhood hyperactivity disorder diagnosis in this country, followed by mass podsazhivanie preschool children on powerful psychotropic drugs. CITIZENS COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS, founded in 1969 Church of Scientology and Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, Thomas Szasz More information is available by phone. 0674873394, e-mail: