Red 40, Yellow 5, and Blue 1 may soon be history. Not because science says they're dangerous, but because the court of public opinion has ruled against them. In a move fueled more by consumer fears ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is adding two natural food dyes to the group replacing petroleum-based colors in the food system.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned the dye known as Red 3 from the nation’s food supply in January, setting deadlines for stripping the brightly hued additive from candies and cough syrup, ...

For many years, the vibrant yellow of Kraft Heinz’s iconic macaroni and cheese came from the artificial food colorings yellow no. 5 and yellow no. 6. In 2012, the company started searching for a ...

The US Food and Drug Administration officially banned Red No. 3, a popular food coloring tied to thyroid cancer, in January of this year. Although the decision marks the beginning of the end for the ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is relaxing rules that restrict when food companies can claim their products have no artificial colors.

The Food and Drug Administration said Monday it has granted approval of a new blue food coloring produced from the gardenia fruit, while urging food manufacturers to quickly abandon a synthetic ...