The red food dye is used in products ranging from candies to vegetarian meats.
The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday it had decided to revoke Red 3's authorization to be added to foods, over concerns about how the food coloring dye has been linked to cancer in laboratory animals. 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 a law requiring the agency to pull additives that are cancerous in animals.
While the group has highlighted Red 3's link to cancer in pushes to ban the additive, it is concerned over a different health concern — the possibility that artificial food dyes could be causing hyperactivity in children — that has fueled opposition to this and another dye called Red 40 used in many U.S. food products.
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