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When you see desserts or candy or medications that are bright cherry red, they often contain some sort of synthetic food dye.
One of those dyes, red dye number three, has been found to cause cancer in rats, and the Food and Drug Administration is now banning it in food and ingested drugs.
Our friends at NPR's Science Podcast shortwave dove into the science behind the ban and talked about other food dyes, too, like Red 40.
So we've got that episode for you today.
I'll turn it over to Shortwave co host Emily Kwong.
Hey, short wavers.
Emily Kwong here with the lovely Maria Godoy, senior editor and correspondent with the NPR Science Desk.
Hey, Maria.
Hey, Emily.
You are here to walk me through an announcement from the Food and Drug Administration.
That's like a pretty big deal.
Yeah.
So they announced that they're banning the food dye red number three, or in FDA terms, that's revoking authorization.
Very official.