The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has officially banned red dye — called Red 3, or Erythrosine — from foods, dietary supplements and ingested medicines, as reported by the Associated Press ...

The move came a few years after a petition highlighted that Red No. 3, also called erythrosine, was shown to cause cancer in rats during research. The ban on erythrosine-containing foods will become ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has banned the commonly used food dye erythrosine, also known as Red 3, from food, drinks and oral medicines, citing research showing it causes cancer in male ...