Adding molecules to food, pros and cons: A review on synthetic and natural food additives

M Carocho, MF Barreiro, P Morales… - … reviews in food …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The pressing issue to feed the increasing world population has created a demand to
enhance food production, which has to be cheaper, but at the same time must meet high …

Chronic consumption of food-additives lead to changes via microbiota gut-brain axis

P Abiega-Franyutti, V Freyre-Fonseca - Toxicology, 2021 - Elsevier
Some food additives have demonstrated to induce dysbiosis leading to the development gut
and gastrointestinal diseases. In order to clarify how this dysbiosis affects the microbiota gut …

Economically motivated food fraud and adulteration in China: An analysis based on 1553 media reports

W Zhang, J Xue - Food control, 2016 - Elsevier
Based on 1553 media reports on food safety scandals and concerns, we conducted an
aggregated analysis on economically motivated food frauds and adulterations in China. A …

Effect of food azo dye tartrazine on learning and memory functions in mice and rats, and the possible mechanisms involved

Y Gao, C Li, J Shen, H Yin, X An… - Journal of food science, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Tartrazine is an artificial azo dye commonly used in human food and pharmaceutical
products. The present study was conducted to evaluate the toxic effect of tartrazine on the …

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

N Mehedi, N Mokrane, O Alami, S Ainad-Tabet… - African journal of …, 2013 - ajol.info
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 …

Inhibition of neuronal voltage-gated sodium channels by brilliant blue G

S Jo, BP Bean - Molecular pharmacology, 2011 - ASPET
Brilliant blue G (BBG), best known as an antagonist of P2X7 receptors, was found to inhibit
voltage-gated sodium currents in N1E-115 neuroblastoma cells. Sodium currents elicited …

Sunset Yellow induced biochemical and histopathological alterations in rat brain sub-regions

D Bhatt, K Vyas, S Singh, PJ John, IP Soni - Acta Histochemica, 2024 - Elsevier
Sunset Yellow, a synthetic orange azo food dye was examined in this study for its impact on
the Wistar rat brain sub-regions. The dye was administered orally to weanling rats at the …

Genetic Damage Induced by a Food Coloring Dye (Sunset Yellow) on Meristematic Cells of Brassica campestris L.

K Dwivedi, G Kumar - Journal of environmental and public …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
We have performed the present piece of work to evaluate the effect of synthetic food coloring
azo dye (sunset yellow) on actively dividing root tip cells of Brassica campestris L. Three …

All you can feed: some comments on production of mouse diets used in biomedical research with special emphasis on non-alcoholic fatty liver disease research

S Weiskirchen, K Weiper, RH Tolba, R Weiskirchen - Nutrients, 2020 - mdpi.com
The laboratory mouse is the most common used mammalian research model in biomedical
research. Usually these animals are maintained in germ-free, gnotobiotic, or specific …

Azo food dye neurotoxicity in rats: A neurobehavioral, biochemical, and histopathological study

P Biswas, J Jain, W Hasan, D Bose… - Food and Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Azo Food dyes (AFDs), which are widely used in the food industry, may be
associated with adverse health effects. We have investigated the effects of the AFDs metanil …