What is Red 40? A candy ingredients label featuring artificial food dyes including colors Red 40, Blue 2, and Yellow 5 is shown on Dec. 16, 2024, in Atlanta.

Manufacturers who use Red No. 3 in food have until Jan. 15, 2027, to reformulate their products, and ingested-drug makers have until Jan. 18, 2028, to comply with the ban.

For nearly a century, artificial red food coloring has been an integral part of candies, baked goods, and beverages, providing their signature pink and crimson hues. On January 15, 2025, the U.S ...

Red No. 40, for example, can be found in salami, Yellow No. 6 in chicken bullion and Blue No. 1 in canned peas. Why is West Virginia banning some food dyes?

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 ...

On Wednesday, the Food and Drug Administration announced it is banning the dye called Red No. 3, a food dye additive in many processed foods, like sodas, sweets and snacks. Recently, it and other ...

There are reportedly thousands of products on the market that have red dye 3 as a listed ingredient. However, the FDA is working to ban the additive that's been linked to cancer.

A widely used artificial food dye could soon be outlawed. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is moving to ban an artificial food coloring called Red No. 3, also known as Erythrosine.