Abstract
Like politicians of all shades, food, drug, and cosmetic colors have a high visibility. This explains why there is more public concern about them than they truly deserve. Some colleagues, however, believe that we do not worry enough about colors, and they reinforce their contention with impressive statistics. Did you know, for example, that the total production of primary colors used in foods in the United States during the first 9 months of 1967 was 1,916,179 lbs? Well, deduct the 202,565 lbs. which went into pet foods, and the 2,271 lbs. used to stamp meat, but we are still left with an impressive figure. Think also of the 72,156 lbs. used in pharmaceuticals, and you end up with a lot of colors devoured by the American consumer.
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Zbinden, G. (1976). Health Hazards from Colors. In: Progress in Toxicology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66292-8_11
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