FDA bans use of Crimson Dye No. 3 in meals

The US Meals and Drug Administration is banning the usage of Crimson Dye No. 3 in meals, drinks, and drugs, the company introduced Wednesday. The dye, which the FDA says provides sure candies, truffles, and frostings a “shiny, cherry-red shade,” was discovered to trigger most cancers in male rats.

Beneath the Delaney Clause of the Federal Meals, Drug, and Beauty Act (FD&C Act), the FDA should ban meals that induce most cancers in people or animals. Nevertheless, the FDA notes that research involving different animals and people “didn’t present these results,” including that claims stating Crimson Dye No. 3 in people “usually are not supported by the obtainable scientific info.”

The FDA’s choice to ban Crimson Dye No. 3 comes simply days earlier than President-elect Donald Trump will likely be sworn into workplace. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s choose for secretary of the Division of Well being and Human Service, has thought-about taking motion in opposition to meals dyes and different probably dangerous components.