After decades of debate, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a ban on Red Dye No. 3, a synthetic food ...
FDA officials have telegraphed the decision for months. While the agency has long said that it did not think evidence of Red ...
The FDA banned the use of Red Dye No. 3 based on a petition asking that the agency follow a specific guideline.
The petition noted that the FDA said it would “take steps” to ban it, but at the time of the 2022 petition, “the agency has yet to delist FD&C Red No. 3 for these uses, and this carcinogen ...