Increased use of unauthorized artificial food colors (AFCs) in Kashmir’s food industry is posing a serious threat to public health, with weak monitoring of the phenomenon adding to the risk, experts have opined. Over the years, the use of artificial colors—chemicals synthesized from petroleum—has gone up in the Valley, resulting in different ailments, medicos told. “Increasing instances of allergic reactions, hyperactivity in children and carcinogenic effects resulting from prolonged use of artificial colors and dyes is a proof of the menace in the market,” said a senior doctor at SHMS…
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