The confectionery industry is aware of the Center for Science in the Public Interest’s (CSPI) recent petition to the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) to ban artificial food dyes linked to behavior problems. CSPI’s petition asks the FDA to require a warning label on foods with artificial dyes while it consider CSPI’s previous request to ban the dyes outright. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration maintains that these food dyes are safe.
Food colors, both artificial and natural, are used in many food products, including some candies. All food colors used in …

Every day we are bombarded with information about food products that are healthy, all natural, have no artificial ingredients, no preservatives, low fat, no fat, no cholesterol, sugar free, vitamin fortified and provide 100% of your daily vitamin requirements. Are these foods as healthy as the advertising tries to make us believe they are?
Let’s look at the facts. There are more than 3000 different chemicals added to our food. The company that wants to produce the chemicals or use the chemicals in the foods they produce usually does the testing …

Sometimes you get a little more than you bargained for with your kung-pao chicken or your sugar-free pudding.
Namely: additives.
For some people, these instigate headaches, allergy-like reactions or even heart palpitations. See if these ingredients are the culprits:
Sulfites: Sulfur-based additives used mainly to prevent darkening of light-coloured vegetables and fruits, and to stop the growth of microorganisms in fermented products, such as wine. Some people have allergy-like reactions to them that can be life-threatening. Fortunately, the label is required to tell you that sulfites are present.
Aspartame: This no-calorie sweetener is associated …

The Food and Drug Administration today has seized products from a company that makes heart pills and other drugs which in the past have been found to be over-sized and carry potentially deadly overdoses of active ingredients.
Caraco Pharmaceutical Laboratories Ltd is accused of repeatedly failing to conform to the FDA’s Good Manufacturing Practices, which are rules designed to assure that manufactured drugs are safe. Federal marshals, under the direction of the FDA, raided three Caraco facilities in Michigan, seizing drugs and drug ingredients held there, officials said.
“The FDA is committed …

Bartenders don’t differentiate between the three kinds of mix. We simply don’t have the space and use one mix for everything. But for the home bartender; is there really a difference?
Of course, the manufacturing companies want you to believe that margarita mix is only for margaritas, collins/sour mix is only for collins/sour drinks and sweet n sour mix is for, well, everything else. The truth is, regardless of what the label reads there are really only two categories of mixer: sweet n sour and sour.
 
Whichever bottle you pick up, if …