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Have you had diarrhea after eating strawberry ice cream?
Did you start itching after some pink grapefruit juice or red ice pop?
Have you had a stuffy nose after nibbling on your soul mates new lipstick?
Did you get hives after washing your hair with a new purple shampoo?
Did you get asthma after some strawberry yogurt or waffles with cherry syrup?
All these products are colored with red carmine dyes. The bright red color pigment comes from carminic acid. The acid is obtained the belly of a dried Peruvian female cochineal insect that feeds on prickly pear cacti.
Cochineal is bright orange, known as carmine, and is vivid red. The dye also may be found in purple or pink coloring, or any red product.
The insect’s red color is added to thousands of food products and cosmetics. Until now, the labels only told you there was a color additive. No mention is made about the source.
The dye is listed on labels under various names: Carmine, Crimson Lake ,Cochineal, Carminic acid, Carmines ,and Natural Red 4 as additive E 120, Cochineal, Natural Red 4, C.I. 75470, and E120,
Since many synthetic red dyes are now prohibited in the United States, Peru enjoys a considerable advantage in the world market, supplying 80% of the world's cochineal — about 40% as a dye and 60%i in insect form.
The FDA, finally after being badgered for several years by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, has decided to make food and cosmetic manufacturers identify the buggy source of carmine or cochineal extract; today it is identified only as "color added" in a product's list of ingredients.
The FDA will require food companies to list “carmine” on the labels, when the red cochineal extract and carmine dye are used in food and cosmetics. The FDA declined to list that the dye is derived from insects, so the beetle shall remain nameless.
Unfortunately the labels will not change until 2011, and the beetle shall remain nameless.
Those of you vegetarians, vegans, and followers of religions with dietary law (e.g. kashrut in Judaism and halaal in Islam), will not see the beetle extract removed from all these products and will have to read labels closely. Assume "carmine' means chochineal insect dye.
The food industry is aggressively opposed to the idea of writing, "insect based" on the label and they finally agreed to have the FDA simply put "carmine” on the label. Label changes will not occur until 2011.
AGAIN, DECEPTION PREVAILS.
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4 comments:
I just came across your blog; thanks for posting.
My son recently had an allergic reaction to Pop-Ice popsicles he was given in his daycare. He has never been exposed to artificial dyes in his food before, as we keep a pretty 'clean' diet at home. The first time, he had a few hives all over his body, and it went away with a few days and one dose of benadryl (dye free version, of course!). The second time, it lasted 4 days and only got better after three days of benadryl Q6. Today, he is covered in purple. (yes, it took a while to narrow down the cause.) Each time it is worse.
I have always avoided dyes because I believe they have a behavioral effect on kids. But I had no idea he could get so sick.
Again, thanks for your posts, and for giving me a space to share. Blessings.
(PS- acupuncture made having my son possible. keep up the good work!)
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I haven't heard that before, but noww I know that some people may allergic on Red.. It sounds funny but sad to those who have that allergy.
At first i was laughing when I knew that there's someone who was allergy on red foods, but it make no sense with me cause I don't have any friends nor relatives that has like this kind of allergies.
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