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The FDA banned Red 3 food coloring. A scientist explains the dye’s history and health risks
Red 3 – also called FD&C Red No. 3, erythrosine or E127 – has been widely used in food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals since ...
STAT7d
How to protect HHS, FDA, NIH, and other health agencies from political interference
When politicians subordinate scientific institutions to electoral interests, they undermine immediate public health efforts ...
FDA approves Vertex’s non-opioid painkiller, first new kind of pain medicine in decades
The Vertex drug is a milestone after a long history of unsuccessful efforts to develop painkillers without the addictive ...
CNET11d
FDA Finally Bans Red Dye No. 3: What You Need to Know
The US Food and Drug Administration announced this month that it's effectively banning Red No. 3, the controversial ...
New York Daily News23d
FDA seeks to limit nicotine in cigarettes, says move could prevent 48M youth from smoking
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration proposed a rule Wednesday to cap nicotine levels at 0.7 milligrams per gram of tobacco in cigarettes and other combusted tobacco products, including cigars ...
Inverse7d
The Just FDA Banned Red No. 3 Dye. What Took It So Long?
Red 3 — also called FD&C Red No. 3, erythrosine, or E127 – has been widely used in food, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals since its FDA approval in 1969. You’ve likely encountered Red 3 before.
pharmaphorum6d
FDA makes history, approving Spark's eye gene therapy
But now the FDA has rubber-stamped the approval of Luxturna, the first ever gene therapy it has backed, all the attention is now on Spark, and what price it plans to charge for the therapy.