The Food and Drug Administration is ordering food and drug makers to remove a dye called Red 3 from the products U.S. consumers eat and drink. The colorant was banned from cosmetics and non-oral ...

On Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned red dye no. 3. The dye makes the bright red color found in some cakes, candies, strawberry-flavored drinks and cough syrups.

The only foods in the European Union that can use Red No. 3, known as erythrosin there, are cocktail and candied cherries. The dye is known as FD&C Red No. 3 or Red 3. The ban removes it from the ...

U.S. regulators on Wednesday banned the additive called red dye No. 3 from the nation's food supply, nearly 35 years after it was barred from cosmetics because of potential cancer risk. The U.S ...

The Food and Drug Administration has just banned the use of red dye 3 in food, drinks and drugs. Many are pleased by the news, yet simultaneously perturbed by the fact studies linking Red Dye 3 to ...