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  • Foods Made of Beetles Now Must Say So (Food additive. Allergic?)

    01/12/2011 8:47:40 AM PST · by decimon · 36 replies
    Live Science ^ | January 12, 2011 | Christopher Wanjek
    The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will have you seeing red this year, but this time it's a good thing. Since Jan. 5, the FDA has required food manufactures to disclose whether red cochineal beetles are among their products' ingredients. These beetles are farmed, harvested, dried and crushed to produce a red dye called carmine that, until this year, had been disguised in the ingredient list as "artificial color," "color added" or the all-encompassing "natural and artificial coloring." Carmine provides pink, red and purple coloring to foods such as ice cream, yogurt, candy, and fruit drinks (should you permit that...