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FDA: Food makers to acknowledge bug-based additives

After a decade of pressure from a consumer advocacy group, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will require the food industry to disclose that a dye sourced from a pulverized insect must be identified as either "carmine" or "cochineal."

Starting in two years, food and cosmetics manufacturers will have to disclose the bug-based food additives on their labels. The FDA created the new rule...

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