At a press conference Tuesday, RFK Jr. said his agency is phasing out synthetic dyes used to enhance color in foods like candy, chips and cereals.

The officials stopped short of promising a formal ban and offered few specifics on how they intended to achieve the sweeping change.

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The FDA plans to phase out several artificial food dyes, affecting popular brands such as Skittles, Mountain Dew and Lucky Charms.

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Some have quit in frustration. The leading nutrition scientist at the N.I.H., Kevin Hall, recently resigned, saying he was being censored. Jim Jones, the chief of the F.D.A.’s food division, quit last month, saying “indiscriminate” layoffs would make it “fruitless” for him to continue.

The FDA announced it would phase out all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the United States’ food supply and medications.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said: “Food dye is just a no-brainer. Nobody wants to eat petroleum.”

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The FDA’s move stops short of the outright ban that had been floated for in Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” platform from the campaign trail. Instead, it relies on what the Department of Health and Human Services said was a “national standard and timeline for