Summary
The FDA is considering banning Red No. 3 and potentially Red No. 40, artificial dyes used in food and beverages, amid growing safety concerns.
Red No. 3, already banned in cosmetics for being carcinogenic in high doses, has faced scrutiny over links to hyperactivity and behavioral issues in children.
While the FDA maintains these dyes are safe under current guidelines, states like California and Illinois have passed laws to restrict them, potentially pressuring manufacturers to reformulate nationwide.
Critics argue the U.S. lags behind Europe in post-market chemical safety reviews.
I wonder how high the doses need to be to be considered harmful / carcinogenic and if there’s a cumulative effect. I pretty much live on those Mio-style water flavorings, and yep, Red-40.
Black cherry and orange vanilla mios is my jam, but I’d love it if they quit throwing dyes in there. I don’t need my drink red or orange. Artificial or natural dyes. Just leave them all out of it.
Make all sodas crystal sodas!
Pepsi crystal tasted kinda bad…lol
Eh, it was a different flavor, they could have made it exactly the same but minus food coloring.
Pepsi and coke without the added colorings would be a lighter color brown. It wouldn’t be clear.
Like ginger ale?
Maybe. I don’t know about ginger ale. I thought ginger ale was really, really, light colored, though.
It is carcinogenic if you have more than two sodas in a week, but who would ever want to do that!
Carcinogens do not have a lower threshold, it is always statistics. So where do you draw the line?