1-Parents cannot control what their kids eat outside their home.
2-Kids are regularly, if not constantly, exposed to candies outside their home (school, after school programs etc..)
3-Parent do not want their kids to ingest artificial dyes and other chemicals on a regular basis.
4-Many artificial ingredients found in candies such as dyes are banned, or require a warning label in other developed countries.
5-Food multinationals use cheaper ingredients in the US because of our lenient regulation. They make the exact same candies in other countries using better ingredients.
It is wrong for food multinationals to use the worst ingredients right here in the USA.