The writing was on the wall for this before RFK Jr got installed. He may or may not be putting it over the finish line, but things were moving in that direction anyway. In 2023, California passed a law banning some additives effective 2027 [1].

In 2016, Mars pledged to remove artificial dyes from their products by 2021 [2]; they didn't do it [3], but they pledged to.

[1] https://text.npr.org/2023/10/10/1204839281/california-ban-fo...

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20190902043853/https://www.mars....

[3] https://web.archive.org/web/20210204131124/https://www.cspin...