Food additives cause children’s hyperactivity and fatiguability
The number of food dyes and flavoring additives widely used in the industry now can cause negative changes in behavior of children and teenagers. Such conclusions of the British governmental Agency on food standards are published by influential scientific magazine Lancet.
According to researches, the group of the additives used in drinks, cookies, sweets and ice-cream leads to children’s hyperactivity, fast fatiguability and impulsiveness.
It has been established, that dyes and other additives influence under 9 years. Earlier it was considered, that the age limit is 3 years.
Meanwhile the Agency has not dared to put restrictions on the given additives in the Great Britain, and has directed corresponding inquiry to Eurocommission. Experts do not exclude, that the number of additives will be forbidden in the EU in the nearest future.
The British scientists have appealed today to parents so that they regard attentively to the products eaten by their children, and also read the information on structure of each product.
British newspaper Daily Mail published the list of food additives which can cause hyperexcitability : E-122, E-102, E-104, E-124, E-129, E-211 and E-110.