Red Dye No. 3, also known as erythrosine, is a synthetic food dye that gives foods and drinks a bright red color. It is also sometimes used in oral medicines and dietary supplements. It first was ...
As part of its enforcement activities, the Food and Drug Administration sends warning letters to entities under its ...
meeting requirements of the 1960 Delaney Clause of the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. The action comes after years of public requests for the FDA to take action against harmful chemicals added to foods.
Over 35 years after the first study linking Red 3 to thyroid cancer in rats was published, the US is beginning to wean it out of foods and drugs.
FDA considers the following action levels to be achievable by the food industry when control measures are taken to minimize the presence of lead.
Imagine reaching for your favorite lipstick or lotion only to discover a “toxic threat.” They contain PFAS - once championed ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has been playing catch-up on three long-delayed proposed rules required under the Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act of 2022 (MoCRA ...
On January 16, 2025, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an order banning FD&C Red No.3 in food and ingested drugs.1 Food and ingested ...
“Under sections 201(s) and 409 of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act), any substance that is intentionally added to food is a food additive, that is subject to premarket review ...
beverages and ingested drugs even though the Delaney Clause of the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act “prohibits the FDA from approving a color additive that is ingested if it causes cancer in ...