Kids First Campaign - Can the Colours 
Additive Alert, The Food Intolerance Network and Additive Education have joined forces with industry experts to launch a national campaign called The Kids First Campaign . This campaign is directed at our national regulator, Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ), and calls for them to remove 6 artificial colours from our foods.The colours targeted are the 6 colours shown in a UK, Southampton study to cause hyperactivity in children. These are Colours; 102, 104, 110, 122, 124 and 129.
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Food Additives and their Effects.
In the pursuit for the perfect product to suit our busy lifestyles, food has become highly refined and processed with a greater number of additives being used. We are consuming more and more additives in our daily lives. It is estimated that an average Australian adult consumes at least 5 kg of food additives each year. Imagine what our children consuming. As parents we need to know what additives need to be avoided and keep them out of our children's diets. They don’t need daily doses of unnatural toxins in their diet. They need good nutrition and a clean environment to grow, physically and mentally.
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School Says NO to Additives!
 Food additives such as preservatives have long been linked with children's behavioural problems. One school principal decided to outlaw them. Food Detective Sue Dengate thinks she can find the answer to most kids' problems in their lunch-boxes.You might need to be a food scientist to decode the information, but children are walking test tubes - in the past few decades, hundreds of additives have crept into their food. Colours, flavours, preservatives: at least 60 of them may cause problems for some kids. But which additives affect which kids? Food companies are leaving parents to find that out for themselves and the results have been disastrous.
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Why Organic? 
Scientific research confirms the common belief organic food is healthier than regular products, despite repeated claims there’s no difference, organic
experts say. Shoppers who buy more expensive organic food do so for many reasons, including a belief it’s better for you, wanting to avoid pesticides, and wanting to be kinder to animals and the environment. Yet many official food bodies claim there’s no evidence to support the view that organic food is better for you. “But it’s a false assumption,”
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A Cocktail of Unnecessary Chemicals in Skincare & Cleaning Products
 They look harmless and sweet smelling, but your average body care product contains a cocktail of unnecessary chemicals that will make your worry! It is worse when you reflect on that fact that the skin of babies and children is up to 5 times thinner than that of adults. It is more sensitive and significantly more permeable. Up to 60% of what you rub onto your child's skin is absorbed through the skin and can be detected in the blood within minutes.
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