📺 Video Local News Interview: Our Thoughts on the Red Dye No. 3 Ban! 🔴
Greetings!
Petroleum based Red Dye 3 is finally becoming banned in the US… way after the EU (1994), Australia and Japan. Studies dating back since the 1980s have showed it causing cancer in rats and then in 2021, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment study found red dye No. 3 can make children vulnerable to behavioral issues, such as decreased attention.
The report also concluded that federal levels for safe intake of food dyes at that time may not protect children’s brain health. The study noted that the current legal levels, set decades ago by the FDA, didn’t consider new research, according to the Environmental Working Group.
To learn more about which foods often have this dye, safer alternatives and my thoughts about it, check out my interview with the local news station KSTP.