ArticlePediatrics2018
Food Additives and Child Health.
Article in Pediatrics, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 64 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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64 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Tiny Tummies, Big Questions: Unpacking Ultra-Processed Ingredients and Additives in Complementary Foods in the United States.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Reverse-engineered exclusive enteral nutrition as induction therapy in pediatric Crohn's disease: Effects on environmental toxin exposure.Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association · 2026Article
- The impact of ultra-processed foods on pediatric health.Obesity pillars · 2025Review
- What do people need to know about endocrine disrupting chemicals and health? A mental models approach using focus groups of community-engaged research teams and a national survey.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Endolysin-based biocontrol strategies againstFood science and biotechnology · 2025Review
- Health impacts of exposure to synthetic chemicals in food.Nature medicine · 2025Review
- Study protocol for the Korean Human Exposure Safety Survey (KoHESS): a national biomonitoring program for food and consumer product safety.Epidemiology and health · 2025Article
- Additives in foods marketed to children in Uruguay, an emerging Latin American country.Journal of nutritional science · 2025Article
- The study of the relationship between food additives and the childhood asthma based on metabolome analysis.Frontiers in immunology · 2025Article
- Microbial conversion of vegetable waste for flavor additives via solid-state fermentation: a comprehensive review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Well-Being and Healthcare Inequality on Bulon-Don Island in Southern Thailand-Results of a Pre-Intervention Field Survey.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Commercially-produced infant and toddler foods-How healthy are they? An evaluation of products sold in Australian supermarkets.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- Ultraprocessing and presence of additives in commercially produced complementary foods in seven Southeast Asian countries: a cross-sectional study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Environmental Exposures and Pediatric Cardiology: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association.Circulation · 2024Review
- Effects of Behavioral, Clinical, and Policy Interventions in Reducing Human Exposure to Bisphenols and Phthalates: A Scoping Review.Environmental health perspectives · 2024Article
- Science evolves but outdated testing and static risk management in the US delay protection to human health.Frontiers in toxicology · 2024Article
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Abstract
Increasing scientific evidence suggests potential adverse effects on children's health from synthetic chemicals used as food additives, both those deliberately added to food during processing (direct) and those used in materials that may contaminate food as part of packaging or manufacturing (indirect). Concern regarding food additives has increased in the past 2 decades in part because of studies that increasingly document endocrine disruption and other adverse health effects. In some cases, exposure to these chemicals is disproportionate among minority and low-income populations. This report focuses on those food additives with the strongest scientific evidence for concern. Further research is needed to study effects of exposure over various points in the life course, and toxicity testing must be advanced to be able to better identify health concerns prior to widespread population exposure. The accompanying policy statement describes approaches policy makers and pediatricians can take to prevent the disease and disability that are increasingly being identified in relation to chemicals used as food additives, among other uses.
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