Today, though, developments in organic chemistry mean we can synthesise a huge diversity of dyes and pigments, and it was estimated that the dye industry contributed £3.8 billion to GDP in 2007, while ...

One significant area of research has been the development of novel dispersants for disperse dyes and organic pigments. For instance, a study introduced a carboxylate comb-like copolymer that ...

T he U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the use of Red Dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs on Wednesday, more ...

Pigments in fossil snail shells from Austria dating back 12 million years are the oldest known preserved dyes from the polyene group, as scientists from the Natural History Museum Vienna and the ...

Some manufacturers have already abandoned Red 3, opting for natural alternatives such as beet juice, carmine (a dye derived from insects), and pigments sourced from purple sweet potato ...