West Virginia is the latest state to ban some artificial food dyes from food and drugs. Here’s what else is happening across ...

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Pittsburg, Calif. – Ten students from Los Medanos College (LMC) will present their work at the 2025 National Conference on ...

In January, the Food and Drug Administration banned Red Food Dye No. 3, which California had banned in October, and at least 10 other states have similar bills moving through their legislatures to ban ...

If a potato chip isn’t bright red, will people know it’s spicy? This type of question kicked off a yearlong effort by PepsiCo Inc.’s marketing innovation, research and development, and ...

What are the pharmaceutical uses of methylene blue? Methylene blue is primarily used as a dye in medical procedures, but it also has several pharmaceutical uses. It is used to treat ...

Beyond red, manufacturers are also exploring natural alternatives for a full spectrum of colors. To replace Blue Dye 1 and 3, spirulina and anthocyanins extracted from butterfly pea flower and red ...

Oddly enough, the treatment that Cawein devised to get rid of the blue skin was to put blue dye into the body. Within a matter of minutes of injecting Methylene Blue, which balanced out the ...