MedPage Today March 23, 2025
— More than 30 years later, the debate on the additive continues
When the FDA announced in Januaryopens in a new tab or window, before President Joe Biden’s term ended, that it would ban a dye called red dye No. 3 in food and ingested drugs, the federal agency cited just one 1987 study on rats to support its action.
The industry-funded studyopens in a new tab or window, based on data from two prior studies, was led by a Virginia toxicologist who said then — and still believes today, decades after concerns first arose that the chemical could be carcinogenic — that his research found the petroleum-derived food coloring doesn’t cause cancer in humans.
“If I thought there was...
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