Food and drink companies will have to stop using petroleum-based dyes by the end of 2026, Health and Human Services officials ...

"It makes them pop. If we didn't include dye in our product, everything would be this sort of creamy brown color," she said. "Adding color really makes things pop and it really makes things sell." ...

Companies use the dyes to give food and drinks brighter colors and make them more appealing. Makary emphasized that this effort to eliminate dyes will be done by working with, rather than against ...

Kennedy Jr. These artificial dyes – detailed during an April 22 news conference in Washington – are used to offset color loss due to exposure to light, temperature extremes as well as to ...

Currently, the FDA permits 36 food color additives, including eight synthetic dyes. In January, it moved to ban Red 3—a dye found in candies, cakes, and medications—after studies linked it to ...

Companies use the dyes to give food and drinks brighter colors and make them more appealing. Which dyes carry risk and at what level is unclear. Historically, research on food dyes has been ...