The Food and Drug Administration is ordering food and drug makers to remove a dye called Red 3 from the products U.S. consumers eat and drink. The colorant was banned from cosmetics and non-oral medications decades ago because a study showed it caused cancer when eaten by rats. But it kept appearing on the ingredient lists of popular snack foods and other grocery products because it remained approved for use until now.

A staple food item in Maine will face some changes in the near future due to a new federal policy.

After U.S. regulators banned the dye called Red 3 from the nation's food supply, a Susquehanna Valley doctor explained why.

A day after the Food and Drug Administration announced it's banning a food coloring called "Red 3," health experts hope this will cause more people to focus more on what they're putting into their bodies.