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Saturday, November 3, 2012

Blue colon at autopsy - Blue No. 1

Blue colon at autopsy.





Authors: Granville LA, Finch C

"FD&C Blue No. 1 was hypothesized to have caused refractory hypotension and metabolic acidosis in 2 patients who died. The Food and Drug Administration approved the blue food coloring based on experiments performed on healthy animals, which demonstrated the dye to be nonabsorbable. Now there are case reports of humans in which the dye may have been absorbed."



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