Nine Manufacturers Added to List Free from “Southampton Six” Colors

Another nine manufacturers producing product lines free of the colors have been added to the list: Brakes, Devon Rose Ltd, ehl Limited, Morrisons, Organix, Pizza Hut, Pudding Pie Cookery School, Tate & Lyle and Tropical Wholefoods. have been added to the list.

Oct 4 2010 --- The Agency has updated its list of product ranges that do not contain the six food colors associated with possible hyperactivity in young children.

Another nine manufacturers producing product lines free of the colors have been added to the list: Brakes, Devon Rose Ltd, ehl Limited, Morrisons, Organix, Pizza Hut, Pudding Pie Cookery School, Tate & Lyle and Tropical Wholefoods. have been added to the list.

The list includes companies whose product ranges have never contained the six colors and companies whose product ranges that have been reformulated to remove the colors. The colors, identified by a Southampton University study financed by the Food Standards Agency, are:
• sunset yellow FCF (E110)
• quinoline yellow (E104)
• carmoisine (E122)
• allura red (E129)
• tartrazine (E102)
• ponceau 4R (E124)

The Agency is publicizing the product ranges to encourage the food industry to participate in the voluntary ban. The voluntary ban was agreed by Ministers in November 2008.

Consumers who are particularly concerned about the presence of the colors should continue to check labels, especially in the case of products with a long shelf-life, where the availability of reformulated products may vary.