Tartrazine (FD&C Yellow No. 5) and other allowed certified color additives may have an exacerbating effect in chronic urticaria and asthma sufferers. In the individual patient the only way to determine their relevance is to administer test doses. By altering doses, timing and substances and by interspacing controls a battery of tests has been developed. Methods of testing for sensitization to f...

Background Colloidal silica is an inorganic substance widely used as excipient in pharmaceutical preparation. It acts as a vehicule to increase the absorption of many oral drug formulations. Many excipients have been reported to induce drug hypersensitivity such as tartrazine, aspartame, benzalkonium chloride, sodium metabisulphite, propyl gallate. However, colloidal silica has never been repor...

Exclusion diets may have a practical place in determining the precipitating dietary factors in certain clinical conditions. We present an exclusion diet which is based on the exclusion of food commonly known to cause food allergies, and the exclusion of food which contains salicylates, benzoates, tartrazine, yeast, and penicillin. This provided a basis for challenge with these additives and nat...

Colour, a vital constituent of food, is indispensable to the modern day consumer as a means for the rapid identification and ultimate acceptance of food. A number of reviews concerning the toxicology of natural and synthetic dyes, especially those used in food, have appeared since the dyestuffs became potential suspects for causing cancer. A large number of natural or synthetic dyes have been r...

the electrocoagulation (ec) is a simple and efficient method for the treatment of many water and wastewaters.the kinetics of decolorization of acid yellow 23 by ec using iron electrodes was studied. theelectrodecolorization rate follows pseudo-first order kinetic with respect to the ay23 concentration havingkapp= 5.65 cm min-1 at t= 295 k. the rate equation is as follows:ln [ay23]t – ln [ay23]0...

A simple spectrophotometric method is described for resolving binary mixtures of some food dyes: Amaranth, Brilliant Blue, Sunset Yellow and Tartrazine, using the first-derivative spectra with measurements at zero-crossing wavelengths. Analytical curves are linear up to 20 mg L(-1). Standard deviations of 1.30, 2.22, 1.93 and 0.81% were obtained for synthetic binary mixtures of 2 mg L(-1) of Am...

An exposure assessment of synthetic food colours was carried out among 1-5- and 6-18-year-old individuals by the food frequency method. Children had an intake of solid food consumption in the range 2-465 g day(-1) and liquid food consumption in the range 25-840 ml day(-1) with added colours. Among the eight permitted colours in India, six were consumed by the subjects of the study. The intakes ...

We reported the simultaneous decolorization of tartrazine and H2 production via electrocoagulation photocatalysis using CuO-doped TiO2 nanotube arrays (TNTA) composites. Tartrazine was removed by combination adsorption, electrocoagulation, photocatalytic degradation, while produced through water reduction at cathode splitting process on photocatalyst surface. The photoreactor contains CuO-TNTA ...

Jiangsu Province Key Laboratory for Chemistry of Low-Dimensional Materials, School of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Huaiyin Normal University, Huai An 223300, People’s Republic of China Email: [email protected] Key Laboratory for the Synthesis and Application of Organic Functional Molecules, Ministry of Education, Hubei University, Wuhan, 430062, People’s Republic of China School of Chemi...