Your talking to the company I had to ring up in an emergency and tell them their "wonderful" wood article of what was a safe wood to use had actually a listed poisonous wood on it and they had to take it down straight away! DOH! And now they are quoting stuff …. love to know what they are reading as its not the same as what I read...
FDA is the American website not the UK legislation or EU legislation website so what is allowed in their country is not always allowed in ours.
Lets start at the top and work our way through the numbers .....
Red 40 is E129 … see BBC new article lower down … to be phased out by 2009 in the UK human consumptions listings...
Yellow 5 is E102 …. also see BBC link below …. to be phased out by 2009 in the UK human consumptions listings
Orange 6 just freaked me out if this is E111 its banned everywhere … please let it not be 1-(
m-Sulfophenylazo)-2-naphthol-6-sulfonic acid, disodium salt although as not written fully it could be acid orange 6 which is mark name of one of the Azo dyes … in which case a textile dye and banned …. would like to know what Orange 6 is really before my mind puddles down any further …. hopefully fingers crossed its actually E110 but then again that also isn't that clever! E110 is a mix of sunset yellow FCF and orange yellow S basically coal tar synthetic colouring. Strangely also on the lower link to the banned consumption for humans BBC news article supplied.
Green 5 is an error on their part there is no green 5 so it has to be Green S which is E142 interestingly its prohibited in Canada, United States, Japan, and Norway for human consumption whole new ball game … Very few side effects are known. In some cases allergies or anaemia have been reported. Synthetic origin
Lets just look at articles for the Red 40 ….
Red 40 (E129) is linked to hyperactivity and being fazed out in the UK according to the FSA, cancer causing in mice according to the information on the lactose website (to be accurate it caused prostate cancer(
http://www.lactose.co.uk/milkallergy/foodadditives100.html the study was
Quote "E129 - Allura red AC - FD&C Red No.40; Orange-red colour used in sweets, drinks and condiments, medications and cosmetics, synthetic; introduced in the early eighties to replace amaranth which was considered not safe due to conflicting test results; allura red has also been connected with cancer in mice; banned in Denmark, Belgium, France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Austria and Norway"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4882322/ this article cites that the hyperactivity cause in humans is also caused in animals by this azo dye and does cite the study names of the studies that show the cancer formation and at what ratios.
Quote "Allura Red is an electrochemically active with irreversible reaction (
Zhang et al., 2010). Previously, several researches have been reported regarding Allura Red toxicity and carcinogenic effects (
Dinç et al., 2002;
Kiseleva et al., 2003;
Amate et al., 2010). Allura Red has potential behavioral effects on humans and animals; especially increase hyperactivity in children. Moreover, some studies have showed the presence of aromatic amine or amide functionalities in the chemical structures of the degradation products of Allura Red. Allura Red has absorbed to gastrointestinal and entered the bloodstream to associates with proteins during its transport and metabolism process (
Combes and Haveland, 1982;
Lok et al., 2006;
McCann et al., 2007;
Rebane et al., 2010;
Gosetti et al., 2013). The excess usages of Allura Red in food and beverage products must be controlled."
http://www.exploreenumbers.co.uk/top-10-e-numbers-try-avoid.html
https://www.foodcolor.com/enumbers
Quote "Approved in the EU. Banned in Switzerland. Undergoing a voluntary phase out in the UK. Approved in the US."
In 2009 it was re-evaluated and put on hold as needing to be restructured for the UK 7mg per kilo of body weight in human children aged 7-10 is deemed safe back then but humans have slower metabolic rates hence my parrots on tramadol get more than the dosage a dog does! so they would have to re- evaluate a parrot at being about half a kilo of body weight but structure in a faster metabolic rate.
https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/1327 (read the abstract)
Quote "McCann et al. from 2007 that concluded that exposure to a mixture including Allura Red AC, resulted in increased hyperactivity in 8- to 9-years old children."
Edit Sorry forgot to add that got re-evaluated in 2012 and lowered again
BBC news website about being phased out as the EU were dragging their heels UK decided to do something about it
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7725316.stm 9article dated 12th November 2008
NHS say avoid these colouring if hyperactive child as these are the most linked this article will freak you all out lists all the cancer studies in humans, plus how it is linked to urticaria and asthma especially when mixed with other dyes
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/food-colours-and-hyperactivity/
Southampton University were credited with the hyperactivity study according to the newspaper The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...for-ban-on-six-artificial-colours-807806.html and was funded by the FSA
https://www.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/food-additives must carry a food warning about hyperactivity IF FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION so what the heck is it doing to our parrots?? But then again as proven above in the NCBI link it also causes hyperactivity in animals.