“”You’d probably have to consume a truckload of red food coloring every week of the year before it would harm you.””
They pump lab rats so full of the stuff, I believe it would be really big news if a lab rat DID NOT get cancer.
upon banning red dye No. 3 from cosmetics in 1990, the FDA downplayed its dangers, noting that the risk of developing cancer from the dye appeared to be less than 1 in 100,000—small compared to the risk of natural disasters (70 in 100,000) or the risk of a train or plane crash (6 in 100,000). Representatives of the food industry had similar messages, with one industry study reportedly saying a person would have to eat 724,000 cans of fruit cocktail a year for 70 years to ingest an equivalent amount of red dye No. 3 as the rats fed the high 4 percent diet dose