Estimates of dietary exposure of children to artificial food colours in Kuwait

Husain, Adnan; Sawaya, W. N.; Al-Omair, Ali; Al‐Zenki, Sameer; Al-Amiri, Hanan; Ahmed, Neveen; Al-Sinan, M.

doi:10.1080/02652030500429125

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“…tartrazine [FD&C no. 5,Colour Index (CI) food yellow 4] is a monazo dye, especially found in drinks and juices (Rao and Baht, 2003;Husain et al, 2006), cosmetics as well as drug products. Also, this food colorant is many used in cooking in developing countries as a substitute for saffron (Mehedi et al, 2009).…”

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A thirteen week ad libitum administration toxicity study of Tartrazine in Swiss mice

Mehedi¹,

Mokrane²,

Alami³

et al. 2013

Afr. J. Biotechnol.

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Tartrazine is a colorant widely used in food products, drugs and cosmetics. The current study evaluates the effect of sub-chronic ingestion of tartrazine in drinking water at doses of 0, 0.1, 0.45, 1 and 2.5% for 13 weeks in mice. Our results show that female body weight gain and food consumption decreased in all treated groups, while fluid consumption increased. The red blood cell count, hemoglobin and hematocrit were increased in male 2.5% treated groups and the white blood cell count decreased in all treated groups. In both sexes of the 2.5% doses groups, total proteins, albumin, creatinine, urea, uric acid, total bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase and transaminases were higher. Histological examinations showed brain, liver and kidney damages in animals treated with 1 and 2.5% doses. We concluded that at doses of 1 and 2.5% in drinking water, tartrazine induces weight depression and adverse effects on brain, liver and kidney.

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confidence: 99%

A thirteen week ad libitum administration toxicity study of Tartrazine in Swiss mice

Mehedi¹,

Mokrane²,

Alami³

et al. 2013

Afr. J. Biotechnol.

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“…Tartrazine (49.5%) and sunset yellow (45.3%) were the most common ly used permitted colour additives, fo llo wed by allura red (39.7%), brilliant blue (39.7%) and carmo isine (24.8%). In this country, [20] assessed the intake of artificial food dyes additives by 5-14-year-old children. A 24-h d ietary recall was carried out twice on 3141 children, male and female, fro m 58 schools.…”

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Food Additives in Products for Children Marketed in Brazil

Lorenzoni¹,

Oliveira²,

Cladera-Olivera³

2012

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Studies show children suffer fro m adverse effects to food additives, in both acute and chronic forms. Children are among the biggest consumers of processed products and have more susceptibility to these adverse effects. In Brazil, there are few data about the exposure to food additives. Therefore, the objective of this article is to elaborate a database of food additives present in products for children. Th is database was built fro m August 2010 to October 2010 fro m the nutritional information on products for children, which could be found on the web site of a Brazilian supermarket. The informat ion contained on product labels of all foods commercialized on the site were analysed, and those with some description or image d irected to child ren, as well as products generally consumed by children, were organized in four categories (cereals and cereal products, dairy and meat products, candy and chocolate, beverages). The number of additives present in each product, the percentages of each class of additive present in the different food categories and the presence of artificial dyes in each category were presented in tables. Among the 5882 products commercialized on the web site, excluding alcoholic beverages, 506 (8.60%) p roducts were classified as children p roducts, fro m which 468 products contained information on their ingredients (and additives) and 438 products contained at least one additive in their formulat ion. The most used additives were lecithin (45.30%) and citric acid (22.86%) and artificial dyes allura red (9.83%), tartrazine (6.84%), sunset yellow (5.77%), brilliant blue (5.77%). Future studies could be carried out to evaluate the amount used and the intake of these additives by Brazilian children.

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“…No estudo realizado no Kuwait por Husain et al 13 , foi analisada a ingestão de corantes artificiais por crianças de 5 a 14 anos, com base em um inquérito dietético (Recordatório 24 Horas). A amostra foi constituída por 3.141 alunos de ambos os sexos, distribuídos em 58 escolas.…”

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“…Além disso, o consumo mais elevado de guloseimas (doces, balas, sorvetes, gelatinas e refrigerantes) por crianças pode ultrapassar a IDA para o corante tartrazina, como foi demonstrado também no estudo de Husain et al 13 .…”

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“…Tam Di Lorenzo et al 54 Sasaki et al 32 Nettis et al 51 Rao et al 12 García et al Husain et al 13 Freitas et al 15 Inoue et al 30 Tanaka 42 Moutinho et al 2 Elhkim et al 28 Ram & torno do déficit de atenção e hiperatividade. Já em relação à hipersensibilidade não específica, o número de estudos foi maior e os resultados mais consistentes quanto às manifestações clínicas de rinite, urticária e angioedema provocadas pelos aditivos, em particular pelos corantes artificiais.…”

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