Effect of artificial food colours on childhood behaviour.
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چکیده
We performed an objective evaluation of 39 children whose behaviour was observed by their parents to improve on an artificial food additive free diet and to deteriorate with dietary lapses. Only 19 children completed a double blind placebo controlled challenge study with artificial food colours. In these children food colours were shown to have an adverse effect on a daily Conners' rating of behaviour, but most parents could not detect these changes. A pharmacological mechanism of food additive intolerance is proposed to explain these effects.
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Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment Statement on Research Project (t07040) Investigating the Effect of Mixtures of Certain Food Colours and a Preservative on Behaviour in Children
1. The COT was asked by the Food Standards Agency to review the results of a research project investigating the effect of two mixtures of certain artificial food colours together with the preservative sodium benzoate on behaviour in children. The study had been carried out by researchers at the University of Southampton and was funded by the Food Standards Agency. The research had been submitte...
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Archives of disease in childhood
دوره 65 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1990