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'Not recommended for human consumption' label may be required on chips, candies in Texas
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A bill sitting on the desk of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott could force the food industry to digest the Make America Healthy Again movement.
Texas Senate Bill 25 would require foods containing certain ingredients to have warning labels on their packaging.
Some chips, candies and sodas would be required to bear the following label: “WARNING: This product contains an ingredient that is not recommended for human consumption.”
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There are 44 ingredients listed, such as synthetic food dyes and bleached flour.
M&M’s would need the labeling in question, as they contain red 40, yellow 6 and blue dyes 1 and 2.
New Texas legislation would require warning labels on products containing any of 44 listed ingredients, including synthetic food dyes and bleached flour. (iStock)
Trix cereal contains blue 1 and red 40, while Doritos chips have red 40 and yellow 6 and 5.
If signed into law, the legislation would require the label to be “placed in a prominent and reasonably visible location,” the bill states.
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The bill states that the ingredients that should be disclosed are “any artificial color, food additive or other chemical ingredient banned by Canada, the European Union or the United Kingdom.”
M&M’s, Doritos and Trix are among popular products that would require warning labels under the Texas legislation. (iStock)
Analysis behind the legislation found that 73% of the U.S. food supply is considered ultra-processed, with Americans’ diet consisting of a 57% consumption of ultra-processed foods – “shown to be linked to depression, obesity, Type 2 diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular disease.”
“The industry is committed to transparency and has long invested in product transparency tools that help consumers to make informed choices for themselves and their families.”
In January, the FDA banned red dye 3, listed in the bill, from foods after being linked to cancer, as Fox News Digital previously reported.
The Consumer Brands Association (CBA), which represents major food manufacturers such as General Mills and PepsiCo, are “urging” Abbott to veto the bill.
“The labeling requirements of SB 25 mandate inaccurate warning language, create legal risks for brands and drive consumer confusion and higher costs,” John Hewitt, senior vice president of state affairs, told Fox News Digital this week.
“The industry is committed to transparency and has long invested in product transparency tools that help consumers to make informed choices for themselves and their families,” Hewitt said.
He added, “No industry is more committed to safety than the makers of America’s trusted household brands. The ingredients used in the U.S. food supply are safe and have been rigorously studied following an objective science and risk-based evaluation process.”
“The labeling requirements of SB 25 mandate inaccurate warning language,” the Consumer Brand Association’s senior vice president of state affairs told Fox News Digital. (iStock)
In April, Fox News Digital asked U.S. Health and Human Resources Secretary Robert F. Kennedy about how Americans will be able to identify products that comply with the phase-out of petroleum-based dyes.
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“We’re looking at labeling. We have to go to Congress for that — but one of the things that we’re going to do is post all the information we have about every additive on an open-source website,” he said.
“And we’re going to encourage companies … to develop apps in the private marketplace where mothers can go in and scan a barcode of every product in their grocery store and know what’s in them and what’s not.”
If signed by Abbott, food manufacturers would be required to add a label starting on Jan. 1, 2027.
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A man armed with a knife was shot by L.A. police officers responding to an assault with a deadly weapon call overnight, authorities said.
According to the Los Angeles Police Department, officers with the Hollenbeck Division responded to an apartment complex in the 3000 block of Glenn Avenue in Boyle Heights at 1:45 a.m. Saturday after callers reported a male suspect was armed with a knife and had just assaulted someone in the complex.
Arriving officers found the suspect in front of the residence, but he did not comply with officers’ commands to drop the weapon. He then advanced toward the officers and an officer-involved shooting occurred, LAPD confirmed.
“The suspect was struck by gunfire and remained non-compliant,” the LAPD Public Information Officer said on X early Saturday morning. “Officers deployed a 40mm foam round and ultimately took the suspect into custody.”
Video obtained by KTLA shows the man being loaded into an ambulance and taken to a hospital; officials said he was transported in stable condition, adding that his knife was recovered at the scene and booked as evidence.
No officers or community members were injured during the incident. The man’s name was not released.
Dangerous rip currents and high surf are forecast for Los Angeles County beaches, including the Malibu Coast this weekend.
The National Weather Service has issued a hazardous beach statement, warning of the potentially deadly beach conditions. The dangerous conditions are forecast to last from Saturday evening to Monday morning.
“There is an increased risk of ocean drowning,” the NWS forecast reads. “Rip currents can pull swimmers and surfers out to sea. Waves can wash people off beaches and rocks, and capsize small boats nearshore.”
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A guide to surviving rip currents from the National Weather Service (NWS)
Minor Beach erosion and coastal flooding is possible through the weekend. The flooding is most likely to occur during evening high tides from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m.
Beachgoers are advised to stay out of the water and remain near lifeguard towers. Jetties and tidepools are also especially dangerous during the weekend forecast.
“Rock jetties can be deadly in such conditions, stay off the rocks,” the NWS forecast reads.
Similar hazardous beach conditions are also in the forecast for Santa Barbara County. A high surf advisory is also in effect for Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties this weekend, where 10 to 15-foot waves will be possible.
If you live or want to live in Los Angeles, the city controller has released a new dashboard highlighting some of the city’s most notorious problem rental properties, a tool designed to help renters avoid future headaches.
“This project comes at a time when tenants are reporting harassment and illegal evictions violating the City’s Rent Stabilization Ordinance, Just Cause for Eviction Ordinance and Tenant Anti‑Harassment Ordinance, but very few of the complaints end up leading to strong enforcement or real accountability,” L.A. City Controller Kenneth Mejia said in a media release Thursday.
The new Top 100 Problem Rental Properties dashboard includes a searchable database of all residential addresses with reported housing violation cases within the city of Los Angeles, a ranked list of the 100 addresses with the most violations and an interactive map.
“There has never before been an uncomplicated way for anyone to look up years’ worth of violations by address,” Mejia said in the release.
Data for the dashboard was compiled from multiple sources, including the Los Angeles Housing Department, Los Angeles City Planning and the L.A. County Assessor’s Office, according to the controller’s office.
The release also identified the top three addresses with the highest number of reported housing violations:
1. 636 1/2 North Hill Place, Chinatown
192 housing violation cases
2. 11700 West Wilshire Boulevard, Sawtelle
166 housing violation cases
3. 6650 West Forest Lawn Drive, Hollywood Hills
113 housing violation cases
“Our new dashboard is an easy‑to‑understand public tool that we hope will help renters and organizers document patterns of harm, as well as put pressure on both landlords and the City to act,” Mejia said. “Everyone deserves safe, stable and dignified housing.”
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