FDA bans use of Red No. 3 dye in food, drinks
FDA bans use of Red No. 3 dye in food, drinks
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is moving to ban the use of Red No. 3 dye in food products.
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They have until 2027?
Lmao, we know this is bad but what's another 2yrs going to hurt...
We know it causes cancer in rats, but we have to think about the shareholders!
There is no evidence that it causes cancer in shareholders.
Shareholders are such scumbags.
If the ban was effective immediately a bunch of things would have to be pulled from shelves and that would impact everything from Acetaminophen to Maraschino cherries to some vegetarian faux-meats. There's over 9,000 (lol) products across a wide number of industries that use Red 3.
Your comment prompted me to lookup when red 3 started to be used in food, but I couldn't find anything. Can't find who discovered it or when it was discovered either, weird. (There are claims but none with a credible source)
According to Material History Review (Fall 1994) it was discovered in 1876 by Adolf Kussmaul. No clue who first used it in food, corporations weren't big fans of telling us what was in food back then.
I just found out minutes before I posted my comment someone added this information to the Wikipedia page lol.
Edit: huh, wait. Material History Review just says "Kussmaul (1876)", are we sure it was Adolf Kussmaul? He was a physician, not a chemist. And it doesn't reference any sources either... Was record keeping that bad back then?
Aye, there's a pattern of breathing named after him. In respect to the possibility of him being its 'discoverer,' there was a greater demand on physicians to be more than medicine dispensers back then. While these days you have a pretty clear divide between MDs that treat patients and MDs that do research, it wouldn't surprise me if a physician in the late 19th century was formulating his own medications to test, and might have a hobby of experimenting with materials that didn't pan out as medication.
I don't know it seems like sometimes the mailman was discovering shit back then.
Red #3 was invented by Red Foreman, obviously. It's named after him.
Uhhh actually it was Red #4 obviously
Man did I love the 70's show. Now I can't watch it because most of the cast tried to protect that one dude. Even white knight Ashton kutcher