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Clinical Trial
. 1990 Jan;65(1):74-7.
doi: 10.1136/adc.65.1.74.

Effect of artificial food colours on childhood behaviour

I Pollock  1 , J O Warner
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Clinical Trial

Effect of artificial food colours on childhood behaviour

I Pollock et al. Arch Dis Child. 1990 Jan.

Abstract

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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