McCormick Removing Food Dyes With RFK Jr. Targeting Additives

McCormick & Co. is working with more food and restaurant companies to reformulate products as customers move away from ingredients like dyes targeted by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

“We are seeing a tick-up in reformulation activity,” said Chief Executive Officer Brendan Foley on an earnings call with analysts, adding that such activity was occurring “across our customer base, but also a lot of new product activity, too.”

McCormick manufactures products from spices to baking ingredients, including food colorings, selling both direct to consumers and to businesses. But relatively little of its consumer portfolio contains ...