The age-old battle pitting a potential public health concern against what can be clearly proven by science played out in Silver Spring, Maryland this week, with science winning this round. As predicted, a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel said today that the current scientific data is just not solid enough to show that artificial food dyes cause hyperactivity in most children. But they did call for more research, particularly on Blue #1. "It's not like there's nothing, but there's not enough," said committee member A. Wesley Burks, a Duke University immunologist. At the meeting in a generic hotel ballroom, complete with complementary candies on every table that were filled with food dyes, natch, a group of 14 food experts from a variety of fields debated food dyes and kids' behavior. Several people on the panel thought the studies showed a clear link and complained that more studies would take years.
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