Food Colouring and it's side effects.
A lot of people I come across, know that food colourings can contribute to behavioural changes in their children... but still so many people are unaware of the degree to which food additives can harm the human body.
While it is true that you would have to eat a lot of these ingredients over a long period of time to have ingested enough to trigger things like various cancers and contribute to chromosomal damage, don't forget that consumption of these things, along with consumption of other known carcinogens, and additives, daily exposure to pollutants, other food additives and chemicals, cleaning chemicals, chemicals and toxins in personal care products etc - all of these things added together shorten the time line in which cells mutate and trigger life threatening reactions.
To read more information about food additives, chemicals and toxins, check out these reliable sources:
The Chemical Maze - BILL STATHAM (Sources of info - ATSDR, American Academy of Dermatology, "Cosmetics Unmasked" - Dr Stephen, Thorsons, Australian Consumers Association, Cancer Prevention Coalition, CSPI, CSIRO, UK Department of Food Science and Technology, "Dangerous Beauty" - Peter Dingle and Tony Brown, Environmental Defense, EPA (USA), European Food Safety Authority ESRA, Food & Drug Administration FDA, Food Standards Australia & New Zealand FSANZ, Journal of the American college of toxicology - And More)
Therese Kerr - http://theresekerr.com/category/toxin-free/
