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WASHINGTON (AP) -- That ice cream you're eating or the lipstick you're wearing just might contain extract from crushed bugs. On purpose.
And the government thinks you should know.
The Food and Drug Administration proposed Friday requiring food and cosmetic labels to list cochineal extract or carmine if a product's ingredients include either of the two red colorings that have been extracted from the ground bodies of an insect known since the time of the Aztecs.
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The ingredients typically are listed as "color added" or "E120," the FDA said.
Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/27/insect.dye.ap/index.html
And the government thinks you should know.
The Food and Drug Administration proposed Friday requiring food and cosmetic labels to list cochineal extract or carmine if a product's ingredients include either of the two red colorings that have been extracted from the ground bodies of an insect known since the time of the Aztecs.
<< snip >>
The ingredients typically are listed as "color added" or "E120," the FDA said.
Full story: http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/27/insect.dye.ap/index.html