In January, the FDA announced its decision to revoke the authorization for one dye, Red No. 3, to be added to foods, after evidence showed a link between the dye and cancer in laboratory animals.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the dye known as Red 3 from the nation’s food supply in January, setting deadlines for stripping the brightly hued additive from candies and cough ...

deep purple-red color, and that's the source of cochineal, cochineal dye, carmine, whatever you wanna call it. Narrator: For thousands of years, people have been using these bugs to dye everything ...

In the wake of the Food and Drug Administration banning Red Dye No. 3 from foods, dietary supplements and oral medications, ...

Two types of synthetic red food dyes have been under extra scrutiny in recent years: Red dye 3 and red dye 40. According to the USDA Branded Foods Database, more than 36,000 American food products ...

The FDA has banned the use of a synthetic red dye used in oral medicines, as well as foods and dietary supplements, more than 30 years after it was linked to cancer, after a citizen's petition was ...