West Virginia banned food dyes on Friday and said it would restrict the use of food stamps to buy soda, advancing two priorities of U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Flanked by school children,

Morrisey unveiled his “Four Pillars of a Healthy West Virginia” highlighting first “cleaning up the food” and HB 2354 prohibiting seven artificial food dyes in schools and then more broadly throughout the state.Morrisey signed the bill into law earlier this week.