Tyson Foods announced Monday it will end the use of synthetic food dyes in its products amid recent initiatives from President Donald Trump’s administration.
Donnie King, CEO of Tyson Foods, said he expects the company to remove all petroleum-based synthetic dyes from its products by the end of May during a Q2 earnings call, the company confirmed to the Daily Caller. (RELATED: Big Soda Floods State Capitol In Unprecedented Fashion To Lobby Against MAHA)
WASHINGTON, DC – AUGUST 08: Tyson Foods frozen chicken products sit in a refrigerated section of a Safeway store on August 08, 2023 in Washington, DC. Tyson Foods announced it would be closing four of its meat processing plants in the United States due to the slump in chicken revenue. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
King claimed that most of Tyson Foods products do not contain these types of food dyes and that it has already been reformulating the products that do.
“Today, the vast majority of our retail branded Tyson products, including our Tyson Dino Nuggets, Tyson Chicken Nuggets, Tyson Chicken Bites, and Jimmy Dean Maple Griddle cakes do not contain any of these types of dyes, and we have been proactively reformulating those few products that do,” he said during the call.
King also affirmed that no Tyson Foods products offered through school nutrition programs contain artificial food dyes.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr. expressed his support for this move.
“Just 13 days after @HHSgov + @US_FDA announced plans to phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply, Tyson Foods today reported it will eliminate these dyes by the end of May,” RFK Jr. said in a Monday post to X.
Just 13 days after @HHSgov + @US_FDA announced plans to phase out petroleum-based synthetic dyes from the nation’s food supply, Tyson Foods today reported it will eliminate these dyes by the end of May. I look forward to seeing more companies follow suit and put the health of… pic.twitter.com/HUyKJCTN70
— Secretary Kennedy (@SecKennedy) May 5, 2025
“I look forward to seeing more companies follow suit and put the health of Americans first. Together, we will Make America Healthy Again,” he went on to say.
RFK Jr. and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary announced April 21 a move to ban artificial petroleum-based food dyes from the nation’s food supply as part of a longterm plan to Make America Healthy Again (MAHA).
Consumption of synthetic food dyes has been linked to brain development issues in children and increased risk for cancer, according to a 2021 press release from California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment.
“These studies demonstrated clearly that some children are likely to be more adversely affected by synthetic food dyes than others,” the agency claimed.