Food and Food Products - As enacted, prohibits LEAs and public charter schools from selling, offering for sale, or providing to students on school property through a school nutrition program any food or beverage item that contains Allura Red AC; Erythrosine B; Tartrazine; Sunset Yellow FCF; Erioglaucine disodium salt; Indigo carmine; or Fast Green FCF. - Amends TCA Title 49, Chapter 6.

HB 1853 amends Tennessee law to prohibit public schools and charter schools from selling, offering, or providing any food or beverage containing artificial food dye to students on school property. This expands the current ban (which only covered Allura Red AC/Red 40) to include all artificial food dyes. The change directly affects all Local Education Agencies (LEAs) and public charter schools operating under Tennessee's school nutrition program. The key mechanism is a simple amendment to the law's language, replacing "Allura Red AC" with "any artificial food dye" in the relevant statute.