Article
[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...
Topics
- Animal Feed
- Animals
- Azo Compounds
- Bone Marrow
- Chromosome Aberrations
- Culture Media
- Escherichia coli
- Food Coloring Agents
- In Vitro Techniques
- Indigo Carmine
- Indoles
- Karyotyping
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred CBA
- Mutagenicity Tests
- Mutagens