LONDON, Apr 8, 2008 (UPI via COMTEX) -- A British study suggests artificial
color added to food and beverages could lower a child's intelligence.
Researchers at Southampton University said developmental damage from seven food
additives could lower a child's IQ by up to five points, The Daily Telegraph
reported Monday.
Britain's Food Standards Agency will meet Thursday to consider recommendations
that manufacturers voluntarily remove six of the food additives from their
products -- tartrazine, quinoline yellow, sunset yellow, carmoisine, ponceau,
and allura red. Further research has been suggested for the seventh additive,
the preservative sodium benzoate, the newspaper said.
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