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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 ...
And really, it wouldn't be a massive shift, considering the FDA banned the use of Red dye No. 3 in cosmetics in the early ‘90s after lab testing showed it caused cancer in mice. (If companies ...
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 ...
In 1939, the International Congress for Cancer Research issued a recommendation for the banning of cancer-causing food dyes (including butter yellow) from food production. [5] [6] In 2014, dried tofu products (a.k.a. dougan 豆乾) from Taiwan were found to have been adulterated with methyl yellow, used as a coloring agent. [8]
As a food dye, it has been permitted by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) since 1956 to color the skin of oranges. [1] [2] [3] Citrus Red 2 is listed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a group 2B carcinogen, a substance "possibly carcinogenic to humans". [4]
While red No. 3 has been banned from cosmetics in the U.S. since 1990, the dye – one of nine synthetic dyes approved for use in the U.S. – remains in food products.. However, the FDA has two ...
Ponceau (17th century French for "poppy-coloured") is the generic name for a family of azo dyes. Ponceau 4R is a strawberry red azo dye which can be used in a variety of food products, and is usually synthesized from aromatic hydrocarbons; it is stable to light, heat, and acid but fades in the presence of ascorbic acid. [1]: 460