The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has officially banned red dye — called Red 3, or Erythrosine — from foods, dietary supplements and ingested medicines, as reported on Wednesday.

FDA officials have telegraphed the decision for months. While the agency has long said that it did not think evidence of Red 3 causing cancer applied to humans, officials said their hand was forced by ...

But experts say the regulator needs to reevaluate the safety of other food dyes too. Data suggests that dyes impact child ...

The dye, known for its bright cherry-red color, is found in candies, snack cakes, maraschino cherries, and some beverages.

According to the Environmental Working Group, over 3,000 products contain Red No. 3 ... from use in cosmetics in the U.S. in 1990 due to evidence that the dye causes cancer at high doses in lab rats.

Red No. 3 is found in cereals, candy, juice, and frozen desserts, and is responsible for the bright red color seen in products like Skittles, Trix cereal, and more.

Outgoing US President Joe Biden's administration on Wednesday announced a ban on Red Dye No 3, a controversial food and drug coloring long known to cause cancer in animals. Decades after ...

Fertilizers that contain treated sewage tainted with toxic PFAS chemicals can be spread on farmland and pose a health risk to people who consume milk, eggs and beef, the agency says.

Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge that is spread on pasture land as fertilizer are causing cancer ... affairs at the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, said the assessment finally makes ...