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Pizza Delivery Just Got Healthier: Major Changes Coming to Your Favorite

By on January 29, 2016
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By Jill Ettinger from NaturallySavvy.com

Papa John’s, the nation’s third largest pizza delivery chain with more than 4,600 locations (3,200 in the U.S.), made a huge announcement earlier this week about its pizza. Papa John’s will become the first national pizza chain to remove a host of artificial ingredients from its menu.

Cut from its popular pizza, sauces, and desserts, are artificial flavors and colors. The move comes after the chain also committed to sourcing antibiotic-free chicken late last year.

“We closed out 2015 announcing our commitment to serve chicken raised without antibiotics and are ringing in the New Year artificial-flavor and synthetic-color free,” Sean Muldoon, Papa John’s senior vice president of research and development, said in a statement. “We’re so proud to be able to show our customers how much we care about what they’re eating.”

The move comes just as the FDA has also tightened restrictions on three types of long-chain perfluorinated compounds, which are known as the “pizza box chemicals” for their use in trapping grease in a number of food packaging products including pizza boxes and microwave popcorn bags.

Numerous health and environmental organizations had been asking the FDA to ban these chemicals because of their connection to cancer and environmental hazards.

The FDA ban went into effect at the beginning of 2016, even though the FDA says the chemicals were hardly in use in recent years. But the organizations that petitioned the FDA in the first place say that not only did the ban come years too late, but it’s merely a drop in the bucket.

“The FDA’s ban is an important first step—but just a first step—toward improving the safety of our food supply,” Erik Olson, director of the NRDC, told Food Safety News. “Now it should act on our petition to ban the seven other chemicals we believe—and government agencies such as the toxicology program at the National Institutes of Health have found—cause cancer.”

 

savvy2Jill Ettinger is Naturally Savvy’s Managing Editor and a contributing writer.

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