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[Mutagenic effect of the food-coloring agents tartrazine and indigo carmine].
Voprosy pitaniia - 1 Jan 2000
Karpliuk I A, Volkova N A, Okuneva L A, Gogol' A T, Rybakova K D
Abstract excerpt
The authors studied the mutagenic action of the food dyes, tartrazine (both Soviet and imported) and indigocarmine in a microbial model and in warm-blooded animals (linear mice). Determined the toxicity and mutagenic action of the dyes on E. coli, strain K-12, carried out chromosomal analysis of the bone marrow, examined the dominant lethals in CBA X C57BL/6 mice. The recommended daily dose amounts to 400 mg/kg...
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