The FDA is banning the synthetic food coloring Red 3 from food and drug products due to animal studies linking it to cancer. While there's no conclusive evidence of harm to humans, the ban gives manufacturers until 2027 to reformulate products and consumers can choose to avoid it in the meantime.
Bright-red Valentine’s Day candy hearts, strawberry-flavored ice pops and yogurt, some maraschino cherries, nutrition shakes, cough syrups and gummy vitamins — these are just some of the items that contain the synthetic food coloring Red 3 , which the Red 3 is also sometimes used in imitation bacon bits, sausages and seasoning packets that appear to have a “natural red color but are enhanced with the dye,” DilleThe ban isn’t immediate, Dilley noted. Food manufacturers have until Jan.
Check food ingredient labels for Red 3, FD&C Red No. 3 or erythrosine to avoid the coloring until the ban goes into effect, Ventrelle said.Animal studies have linked Red 3 in high amounts to cancer in rats, but there’s no evidence that it can also cause cancer in humans, Vasagar said. Still, this research is what led the FDA to ban the dye in cosmetics more than three decades ago.
“The removal of the dye does not make excessive ingestion of processed foods safer,” Jennings said, adding that consuming excess sugar, often found in these items, can lead to obesity, which is linked to cancer, diabetes and other chronic conditions.Simply eliminating Red 3 will have “far less health benefits” than quitting smoking, limiting alcohol, increasing exercise and eliminating ultra-processed foods, Vasagar added.
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