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Various medications include tartrazine to give a yellow, orange or green hue to a liquid, capsule, pill, lotion, or gel, primarily for easy identification. [9] Types of pharmaceutical products that may contain tartrazine include vitamins, antacids, cold medications (including cough drops and throat lozenges), lotions and prescription drugs.
colour (yellow and orange) 101(iii) A E riboflavin from Bacillus subtilis: colour (yellow and orange) 102 A E U tartrazine: colour (yellow and orange) (FDA: FD&C Yellow #5) 103 A alkannin, chrysoine resorcinol: colour (red) 104 A E Quinoline Yellow WS: colour (yellow and orange) (FDA: D&C Yellow #10) 107 E Yellow 2G: colour (yellow and orange ...
FD&C Yellow No. 5 – Tartrazine, E102 (yellow shade) FD&C Yellow No. 6 – Sunset yellow FCF, E110 (orange shade) Two dyes are allowed by the FDA for limited applications: Citrus red 2 (orange shade) – allowed only to color orange peels.
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. [15]
Reagent testers might show the colour of the desired substance while not showing a different colour for a more dangerous additive. [2] For this reason it is essential to use multiple different tests to show all adulterants.
Direct yellow 4 Brilliant fast yellow Direct yellow 4 24890 diazo 3051-11-4: Direct yellow 106 Brilliant fast yellow Direct yellow 106 40300 stilbene 12222-60-5: Disperse blue 1 1,4,5,8-Tetraaminoanthraquinone Disperse blue 1 Solvent blue 18 64500 anthraquinone 2475-45-8: Disperse blue 124 Disperse blue 124 111938 azo 61951-51-7: Disperse Orange 1
Tannins – color, emulsifier, stabiliser, thickener; Tansy – Tara gum – thickener, vegetable gum, stabilizer; Tarragon (Artemisia dracunculus) – Tartaric acid esters of mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids – emulsifier; Tartrazine – color (yellow and orange) (FDA: FD&C Yellow #5) Tea oil/Camellia oil – widely used in southern ...
These concerns have led the FDA and other food safety authorities to regularly review the scientific literature, and led the UK FSA to commission a study by researchers at Southampton University of the effect of a mixture of six food dyes (Tartrazine, Allura Red AC, Ponceau 4R, Quinoline Yellow WS, Sunset Yellow and Carmoisine, dubbed the ...