An update was sent to Streets on 2 December 2015: As of this morning, more than 5,000 people have supported the petition asking Streets to remove Annatto 160b from their ice cream variations. See comments chn.ge/1KPj5P8 What if 5,000 people wrote to you and said they didn't like the flavour of Streets icecream? You would change your formulation in a flash. But this is far more serious. More than 5,000 people have taken the trouble to tell you how badly they are affected by a totally unnecessary harmful natural colour when a simple safe alternative exists. Streets competitors have already changed recently: • Parmalat Australia Ltd removed Annatto 160b from their Vaalia yoghurt • Sanitarium Australia removed Annatto 160b from their Vanilla So Good Vanilla Bliss • A2 Australia manufactures their vanilla ice cream using Beta Carotene 160a, a safe alternative Can you please give us a Christmas present and undertake to tell us that Unilever Australasia and Streets are phasing out Annatto 160b? Dr Howard Dengate for the Food Intolerance Network PS: We are not making this up. Mikkelsen et al 1978 talked about allergic reactions ("natural food colours may induce hypersensitivity reactions as frequent as synthetic dyes"), Drs Loblay and Swain first drew attention to food intolerance problems with annatto 160b in 1996 and even the Commonwealth Department of Health in their National Healthy School Canteens acknowledge (p45) that annatto is among the additives "most likely to be a problem". See references at http://www.fedup.com.au/news/blog/annatto-petition-reaches-5-000-supporters