Key Highlights
- Now supporters vow that one court setback will not slow them down.
- A West Virginia judge paused enforcement of parts of H. B.
- 2354 — the state law restricting certain food dyes and preservatives — during the holiday week, on Dec.
- 23.
- That triggered swift backlash from state leaders and advocates who say the fight is only intensifying. In her ruling, Judge Irene Berger — appointed by former President Obama — said the law is "unconstitutionally vague because it fails to provide sufficient notice and invites arbitrary enforcement." COMMON CHEMICALS, FROM FOOD ADDITIVES TO PESTICIDES, MAY BE WRECKING YOUR GUT HEALTH, STUDY SAYS She added that the statute does not spell out how the West Virginia Department of Health should determine whether color additives beyond those specifically listed are "poisonous and injurious." Berger was nominated in 2009 by Obama to serve as a U. S.
