The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has taken additional steps to support the transition of the nation's food supply from the use of artificial petroleum-based colors to alternatives derived from natural sources.
Companies will now have flexibility to claim products contain 'no artificial colors' when the products do not contain petroleum-based colors. In the past, companies were generally able to make such claims only when their products had no added color whatsoever — whether derived from natural sources or otherwise.
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