Your local grocery store shelves are full of products you as a local consumer has stopped purchasing. Trucks are brought in to haul away the excess product inventory store clerks and owners have watched multiply like rabbits on shelves consumers do not even touch anymore. Aisles and aisles of stores in every mall across the country that sells cosmetics, foodstuffs or beverages that contain FD&C yellow 5 and 6 OR Red #4 and Lake Red #40 are deserted of the hoards of people who once used to flock and buy these products in bulk.

The above photo of a product that has these chemicals as one of their ingredients is JELL-O Vanilla Instant Pudding. But they know better and no this is not no scene from some post-apocalyptic base survival movie this is the real truth about voicing and acting out on our consumer rights. On the shelves there sits a product that contains certain dyes/additives/preservatives/chemicals used for enhancing color, taste, texture, smell, shelf life, absorption, or even consistency ! These products have been linked to numerous testing on the neurological development of our infants, toddlers and preschool age children. Their development is definitely being affected and not in a good way.

Folks, I am not ranting about inventory spending or how the stores in your local area treat you as a patron. I am ranting on what those grocery, pharmacy, dollar and convenient store owners and sales clerks are selling and distributing to the American public. It is appalling and makes me wonder if our government, rather the FDA well same thing isn’t it, just knowing a manufacturer is NOT adding those hazardous products is why China is giving us so much import/export dependence. Our own manufacturers either are getting wiser to not making products with these chemicals and getting shut down, OR they care nothing at all and keep making the product with the dyes so they too can feed their family.

I am sure many of you are familiar with Kraft Mac n Cheese in the blue and yellow box. Children love it, I loved it . . . yes I say loved because once I discovered that nifty powdered cheese you add to the noodles is full of red dye #40, I threw out any remaining boxes, which was one little over three years ago. Although this dye is found at the end of the ingredients list, the amount in there for that dried cheese powder to be so orange-red instead of pale yellow or orange yellow like NATURAL aged American cheese should be colored, is a bit scary !

I do not wish to come off as making this a petition, a boycott threat or even a demand; but I do urge you to look into your local store, or catalogues you receive in the mail, or purchases of cosmetics and food items online. Go ahead and type in some of the ingredients. Those you cannot pronounce are the worst of all besides those that has classification index numbers assigned to them. By typing in any of the ingredients on a search engine address bar, you as a consumer have access to many of the hazardous chemicals found in a plethora of products. If any of your local merchants in stores have the audacity to sell products which contain dangerous amounts of FD&C Red #40, Lake Red #4, Yellow #5 & #6, don't you as a consumer and human being with rights be allowed to get rid of those foodstuffs and cosmetics ?

SURE YOU DO !

I do research. I am on the computer so much I wonder, and compared to most that just might use it to play on-line video games or on-line shop or just watch videos, I use it to learn. I seek as much truthful information as possible. By combining my chemistry, anatomy and psychology backgrounds, I can assure you that information regarding toxic chemicals hazardous to our health is no made up baloney !

I found out and continue to see this stuff everyday in my research for product reviewing, that BECAUSE of the direct studies linking these food additives for color and enhancement, to increased hyperactivity, a concern in the autism spectrum disorders and decreasing IQ, I must speak up about this practice that is truly not necessary for the manufacturing and distribution of what we eat or put on our skin !

I do torture my body enough and feel it is NOT NECESSARY to make my red tomato sauce brighter (Ragu is classic for FDA RED #40 !), my Green Tea Therapy shampoo by Alberto V05 greener by adding Violet 2 or Red 4 when the product is supposed to be green, my lips redder and having lead in it besides those evil red dyes so I can kiss more ardently, or my antiperspirant smell more flowery instead of working to eliminate odor !

In doing reviews at a site called EPINIONS, I come across several products which contain some dangerous additives that many consumers take for granted. Why ? do consumers feel some of these chemicals are OK-- because they trust our government. I suggest they stop trusting that which deems it necessary to medicate without warning to slowly create a future of conditioned people who will not be thinking for themselves any longer. The two products, so far as I begin this series of investigative reporting, I did find info on are listed below.

If you are using products (or know of anyone else buying and using) that contain these FD&C dyes Yellow #5 or #6 AND Red Dyes #40 and lake red #4-- read labels and prove its not in there. Please warn them ! Make sure you don't purchase further, any items that do contain such material. Read your labels ! If a store is accumulating more inventory than they are selling because people stop buying, then we are making headway. Otherwise, your local stores will just keep stocking in hopes of you buying while the govt is excited their plans of attack are working !

JELL-O Vanilla Instant pudding . . .