13 food products containing red no. 3, an artificial color banned by the FDA due to cancer risk
Food and beverage manufacturers have two years to change recipes and formulas now that the US Food and Drug Administration has banned synthetic food coloring Red No. 3.
Also known as erythrosin, synthetic food coloring Red No. 3, it has been primarily used in a wide range of food products, such as sweets, cakes and pastries, cookies, frozen desserts, frostings and frostings, as well as certain medicinals that are consumed.
Here are some of the most recognizable products that could be in your pantry right now.
CANDY
1. Brach’s conversation hearts
2. Brach’s Candy Corn
3. PEZ candies assorted fruits (cherry, strawberry, grape, raspberry, orange, lemon)
4. AMOS Lollipop Finger Rings
5. Jelly Belly’s Gourmet Candy Corn
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A classic Halloween snack, Candy Corn by Jelly Belly’s featured Red No. 3. (Julia Rubin, File)
Some PEZ candies contained the now-banned food coloring Red No. 3. (William Thomas Cain)
GRICOLE
6. Entenmann’s Little Bites Party Cake Mini Muffins
7. Publix canned mixed fruit
8. Kellan’s Pop-Tart Bites Confetti Cake
“Confetti cake” Pop-Tart snacks made by snack giant Kellanova featured a red number 3. (kellanovaawayfromhome.com)
FURNITURE ARTICLES
9. MorningStar Farms Veggie Breakfast Original veggie bacon
10. Yellow rice with Vigo saffron
11. Betty Crocker Loaded Pushed Potatoes
12. Nesquick Strawberry low-fat milk
13. Nerds Bomb Pop Popsicles
CERTAIN SWEETS AND BEVERAGES MAY BE BANNED IN SOME COUNTRIES DUE TO CANCER CAUSING INGREDIENTS
The red number is 3 prohibited for use in food in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, except for certain types of cherries. The dye will be banned in California starting in January 2027, and lawmakers in Tennessee, Arkansas and Indiana have introduced proposals to restrict certain dyes, particularly in foods offered in public schools.
Manufacturers using Order No. 3 in food have until January 15, 2027 to reformulate their products, and manufacturers of consumable drugs have until January 18, 2028 to comply with the ban.
FOX Business reached out to candy, snack and food manufacturers for their comments on the ban.
Unspecified grocery store seen in Virginia on July 13, 2022. (Xinhua via Getty Images)
The FDA’s move comes more than three decades after red dye No. 3 banned in cosmetics and non-oral drugs because a study showed that it causes cancer when eaten by rats. But it continued to appear on the ingredient lists of popular snacks and other food products because it had been approved for use until now.
“Why you would say something can’t be in cosmetics but you can eat it makes no sense to me. I’m very pleased that they finally did what I think they should have done years ago,” petitioner Linda Birnbaum, former director at the National Institute of of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program, Reuters said.
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About two-thirds of Americans tend to limit or reformulate processed foods to remove ingredients like added sugar or coloring, according to new AP-NORC survey according to the Associated Press. Support is particularly high among US adults with college degrees, as well as those with higher household incomes.
FOX Business’s Daniella Genovese, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
