HHS to announce plans to remove artificial dyes from food, CNN reports

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is expected to announce plans to remove artificial food dyes from the nation’s food supply, CNN’s Deidre McPhillips reports. The FDA announced in January that it had banned the use of red dye No. 3 in food, beverages and ingested drugs. The Trump administration appears set to take action on a broader set of petroleum-based synthetic dyes that are used to make food and beverages brightly colored and more appealing to consumers, according to the report. Publicly traded companies that may be impacted by the news include IFF (IFF), Sensient (SXT), General Mills (GIS), Kraft Heinz (KHC), PepsiCo (PEP), and Coca-Cola (KO).