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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering banning an artificial food coloring called Red No. 3 due to potential health risks, including a link to cancer. Red food dye could soon be ...
The Food and Drug Administration may finally move to ban artificial red food dye, the coloring found in beverages, snacks, cereals and candies. At the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions ...
A growing body of research has linked artificial food dyes, especially Red No. 40, to a slew of health issues. “There is data in animals that some of these dyes may cause cancer,” Alan says ...
A variety of food colorings, added to beakers of water. Food coloring, color additive or colorant is any dye, pigment, or substance that imparts color when it is added to food or beverages. Colorants can be supplied as liquids, powders, gels, or pastes. Food coloring is commonly used in commercial products and in domestic cooking.
The diet was originally based on the elimination of salicylate, artificial food coloring, and artificial flavors; [4] later on in the 1970s, the preservatives BHA, BHT, [5] and (somewhat later) TBHQ [6] were eliminated. Besides foods with the eliminated additives, aspirin- or additive-containing drugs and toiletries were to be avoided.
It was not used in food in the US. [4] [5] In the EU, azorubine is known as E number E122, and is authorized for use in certain foods and beverages, such as cheeses, dried fruit, and some alcoholic beverages, [6] and is permitted for use as an excipient in medications. [7]: 4 [8]: 16 There are no provisions for azorubine in the Codex Alimentarius.
The pigment, also known as Red Dye No. 3, has been shown to cause cancer in animals, and some studies have linked it and other artificial food dyes to hyperactivity and other neurobehavioral ...
In 2008, the Food Standards Agency of the UK called for food manufacturers to voluntarily stop using six food additive colours, tartrazine, allura red, ponceau 4R, quinoline yellow WS, sunset yellow and carmoisine (dubbed the "Southampton 6") by 2009, [14] and provided a document to assist in replacing the colors with other colors.