The FDA’s move comes more than a year after California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the California Food Safety Act, which bans red dye No. 3 and other substances from being sold in the state.

Food companies have two years to get red dye No.3 out of their products. But other synthetic dyes have also raised concerns, because of behavioral issues in kids. Here's what parents need to consider.

Studies show that high doses could cause cancer in rats, but the regulators maintain that no evidence exists that ingesting the coloring causes cancer in humans.

The FDA has banned Red Dye No. 3 dye from food and ingested drug products. Here are the food products containing Red 3 and how the ban affects you.

With the recent news that the Food and Drug Administration is banning Red No. 3, the artificial dye that is considered a potential carcinogen, some experts are saying it could be the start of a much larger trend to remove any number of additives from some of our favorite foods and drinks.

What is red dye no. 3, what products have red dye no. 3, and why has the FDA banned red dye no. 3? Dr. Frita Fisher explains the cancer risk associated with the red-pink dye popularly found in foods and how consumers can actively avoid it while the food industry slowly phases it out.

The FDA has officially banned Red 3, a common food coloring dye. The ban came after research found that the dye could cause cancer in rats. This has left many companies and stores wondering what manufacturers plan to do about the ban and what alternatives they’ll use.

Parents, including several from Staten Island, are expressing support of the Food and Drug Administration’s ban on Red Dye No. 3, praising it as a decision that has us “heading in the right direction.

Following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) order banning the use of Red Dye No. 3 in food products, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias renewed his call for an overhaul of the rules governing food additives to eliminate toxic chemicals from the food supply,