Food Color Additives Banned in the USA
Listed color additives are banned in the United States of America. Products found being offered for retail sale or warehoused for further distribution containing these banned additives are to be placed under seizure and destroyed under signed waiver.
Number | Name | FD&C Number |
E104 | Quinoline Yellow | D&C Yellow #10 |
E107 | Yellow 2G | |
E122 | Azorubine Carmoisine | |
E123 | Amaranth | delisted FD&C Red #2 |
E124 | Ponceau 4R, Ponceau Red, Cochineal Red A | |
E125 | Ponceau SX | delisted FD&C Red #4 |
E131 | Patent Blue V | |
E142 | Green S | |
E151 | Brilliant Black B, Black PN | |
E153 | Vegetable Carbon | |
E154 | Brown FK | |
E155 | Brown HT, Chocolate Brown | |
Cuttlefish Black, Cuttle Black | Not on FDA's list of permitted color additives |
These colors, previously commonly used, are no longer authorized or have been restricted in their use.
FD&C Green #1 | Removed from list. | |
FD&C Green #2 | Removed from list. | |
FD&C Red #1 | Removed from list. | |
FD&C Red #2 | Removed from list. | |
FD&C Red #3 | All lakes, cosmetics, and external drugs removed from list. | |
FD&C Red #4 | Food, ingested drugs, and ingested cosmetics removed from list. | |
FD&C Violet #1 | Removed from list. | |
Alkanet (Alkane) | ||
Calcium Carbonate | Allowed in drugs. | |
Carbon black | ||
Charcoal- NF XI | ||
Cudbear | ||
Ferric chloride | ||
Ferrous sulfate | ||
Logwood, chip & extract | Logwood extract is still permitted in sutures. |