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| Kraft under pressure over 'cancer-causing' yellow food coloring in Macaroni and Cheese after 41,000 sign petition to ban additive | Mail Online Two mothers have launched a campaign demanding that Kraft remove the artificial food dyes in the U.S. version of its Macaroni & Cheese Lisa Leake and Vani Hari, both from North Carolina, noticed that the brightly-colored pasta contains two synthetic substances - yellow 5 and yellow 6 - that add nothing to the flavor and may be dangerous to children's health. Mrs Leake,35, and Ms Hari, 33, have launched a Change.org petition titled Kraft: Stop Using Dangerous Food Dyes in Our Mac & Cheese which currently has 41,482 signatures. In a video posted on the site they say that the yellow dyes, which contain benzidine 4-amino-buphenyl, a man-made product derived from petroleum, are used 'solely for aesthetics'. The go on to highlight that the colorants have been linked to hyperactivity in children, asthma, migraines and .
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And what???? AND WHAT!?!??!?!
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| Just feed your kids a different brand if you dont like what is in kraft, or make your own.
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| That stuff is vile. Just the smell of it makes me want to hurl. |
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| Take it back.
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| I don't eat mac and cheese. Period. |
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