Food additives play a critical role in the food industry. Additives include colorings, flavor enhancers and preservatives. There are many benefits of food additives, yet there are ongoing concerns ...

Multiple preservatives that are added to food products to lengthen their shelf life have significant associations with overall cancer development.

Foods that rely heavily on preservatives may be doing more than extending shelf life. In a large study spanning more than a ...

Higher intake of certain food preservatives, common in processed foods, may be linked to a modest increase in cancer risk.

Food additive mixtures are an everyday feature of our diets, especially through ultra-processed foods. Until recently, safety evaluations of these additives have been conducted substance by substance ...

Food additives have come under increasing scrutiny in recent months, and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently announced a ban on eight frequently used food dyes from food and beverages. Two ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr has spent years railing against food additives, framing them as part of a broader threat to public health. Now, as the US health secretary, his views have taken on new weight.

DALLAS — A new Texas law promoting the Trump administration's “Make America Healthy Again” agenda requires first-ever warning labels on foods like chips and candies that contain dyes and additives not ...

Main outcome measures Cumulative time dependent intake of preservatives, including those in industrial food brands, assessed ...