The state of California banned the Red No. 3 dye and three other food additives in 2023, which gave manufacturers until 2027 ...

Chameleons are the most famous color-changing animals, but there are plenty of other animals that possess this talent.

For decades, FD&C Red No. 3 has added its vivid cherry-red hue to candies and cupcakes—but its risks have been debated just as long.

Brazilian and British researchers have observed that a small crustacean that changes color according to the marine vegetation ...

a synthetic dye that gives food and drinks their bright red cherry color but has been linked to cancer in animals. The dye is still used in thousands of foods, including candy, cereals ...

an FDA regulation prohibits the agency from authorizing color additive found to induce cancer in either humans or animals, pushing the agency to revoke the food dye's previous authorization. Red 3 ...

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.

Red dye #3 is being banned because of an outdated law ... the FDA must factor in carcinogenicity in its decisions to approve food additives, color additives, and animal drugs. The Delaney Clause ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially banned red dye ... cannot classify a color additive as safe if it has been found to induce cancer in humans or animals.

which holds that the FDA cannot approve a color additive that shows cancer in humans or animals. Red No. 3 presented a scenario where the cancer found in animals doesn’t translate to cancer in ...