Red Coloring Linked to Cancer Risk Banned in US Foods — VOA Learning English
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned a chemical widely used to color some food products red. The ban of the coloring chemical, called dye, came nearly 35 years after it was removed from skin products because of a possible cancer risk.
A group of food safety and health supporters issued a petition in 2022 seeking to have the FDA ban Red No. 3 in food.
The earlier ban was ordered in 1990, after two studies showed Red No. 3 caused cancer in male rats eating high levels of the chemical. At the time, however, the FDA only acted to ban the coloring mixture in products put on the skin or in drugs taken by mouth.
Health activists had long sought FDA approval to expand the ban to food…
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