The FDA has announced a sweeping ban on Red Dye No. 3, giving food companies three years to reformulate their products.

Red dye number 3 has been banned. My first thought upon hearing the news was, “What the heck is that?” My second, after a quick Google, was whether I should stockpile in my basement a stash of ...

“Red Dye number 3 contains four iodine atoms in the molecule. And iodine acts on the thyroid. And so when you’re ingesting large amounts of iodine, it stands to reason that it would affect the ...

Last month, the Food and Drug Administration announced it is banning Red No. 3, a food dye additive in processed foods like sodas, sweets and snacks. Recently, it and other dyes were linked to ...

The Food and Drug Administration has revoked food dye 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.

U.S. health officials have banned Red Dye No. 3 from American foods, decades after the synthetic coloring was banned in Europe. As VOA’s Dora Mekouar reports, studies have linked the bright red ...