Food Coloring

Natural colours: insatiable demand but no silver bullet

The trouble with nature...

By Rod Addy

As the food industry shifts from synthetically-derived colours, past ‘natural’ ingredients to colouring foodstuffs, we highlight the challenges this is currently creating.

Health Canada proposes stricter color labeling

Health Canada proposes stricter color labeling

By Caroline Scott-Thomas

Health Canada is seeking comments on a proposal to change Canadian regulations on how food colorings are listed on ingredient labels, the agency said on Thursday.

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