Ingredient used in more than 9,200 processed foods and drinks banned for link to cancer
A synthetic red dye used in thousands of food and drink products has been banned by US officials after being linked to cancer. Bright cherry-colored Red No 3 had its use authorization revoked on Wednesday by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA),
FDA Bans Red No. 3 from Food and Drinks, Citing Cancer Risks
The artificial food dye can be found in candy, beverages, chips and other packaged foods — often consumed by children.
US bans popular red dye from foods — 35 years after it was banned in cosmetics
Red No. 3. is commonly found in candy, gum, and cookies, including Brach’s candy corn, Betty Crocker sprinkles, and strawberry Ensure over links to cancer.
FDA bans food dye Red 3, citing concern over cancer in some animals
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it had decided to revoke Red 3's authorization to be added to foods, over concerns about how the food coloring dye has been linked to cancer in laboratory animals.
FDA bans controversial red dye found in candy, drinks and snacks
Studies show that high doses could cause cancer in rats, but the regulators maintain that no evidence exists that ingesting the coloring causes cancer in humans.
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FDA bans Red Dye No. 3 from foods, drugs, beverages; lauded as win for public health
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has banned Red Dye No. 3 from food, beverages and drugs. The Center for Science in the Public Interest, which brought the petition to ban red No.
FDA bans red food dye due to potential cancer risk
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has officially banned red dye — called Red 3, or Erythrosine — from foods, dietary supplements and ingested medicines, as reported on Wednesday.
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FDA bans red dye No. 3 from food, drinks and ingested drugs in the US
Red dye No. 3 has been permissible for use in food despite the Delaney Clause of the FDA’s Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The clause, in part, “prohibits the FDA from approving a color additive that is ingested if it causes cancer in animals or humans when ingested,” according to the agency .
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After a Red No. 3 ban, could other food additives be cut the same way?
Food dye Red No. 3 has been banned by the FDA. Are there other food additives that could soon be forbidden the same way?
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FDA bans cancer-linked Red No. 3 dye in food and drinks
The FDA has banned Red No. 3, a dye linked to cancer, from food and drinks, impacting products like sports drinks and cereals.
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India is boosting vaccination efforts to eradicate cervical cancer
A new initiative, led by the Indian Medical Association (IMA) and the Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI), seeks to eliminate cervical cancer in India. As part of the initiative,
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What the Hell Is Going on at NIH?
Chrystal Starbird, a cancer researcher at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine, had been preparing to serve on her first National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant review panel at the end of January. On Wednesday, to her surprise, that meeting was abruptly canceled.