Food additives make children behave badly

Published: September 6, 2007, 4:36 am

Tags: child takeover, food safety, health amp amp fitness, mental health

The Times Sep 6, 2007 by Valerie Elliott Britain's food watchdog is warning all parents today of a clear link between additives and hyperactive behaviour in children. Research for the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and published in The Lancet has established the deleterious effects of taking a mixture of artifical extras that are added to drinks, sweets and processed foods. It has led the FSA to issue the advice to parents who believe their children to be hyperactive that they should cut out foods containing the E numbers analysed in the study. Scientists from the University of Southampton, who carried out research on three-year-old and eight-year-old children, believe that their findings could have a substantial impact on the regulation of food additives in Britain. But the FSA has been accused of missing an opportunity to protect children and all consumers by failing to impose a deadline on manufacturers to remove additives such as Sunshine Yellow and Tartrazine from

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