Three buckets of Dubble Bubble bubble gum. The FDA announced Wednesday it will ban the use of Red Dye No. 3 in food products and ingested drugs, decades after it was banned in cosmetics and ...

The petition noted that the FDA said it would “take steps” to ban it, but at the time of the 2022 petition, “the agency has yet to delist FD&C Red No. 3 for these uses, and this carcinogen ...

Officials cited a statute known as the Delaney Clause, which requires FDA to ban any additive found to cause cancer in people or animals. The dye is known as erythrosine, FD&C Red No. 3 or Red 3.