Food colors are substances which added to food, food products and drink to changes its color to improve the visual quality of food for attraction of the consumer. The study scrutinizes the Manace/Danger of Food Colors which is achieved to make food more attractive, appealing, appetizing, and informative, correct natural variations in color and allow consumers to identify products on sight, like candy flavors or medicine dosages. The main pollutants can be poisons, chemical compounds, toxic gases, and bacterial toxins. These can be found in different places and their effects depend on the dose and exposure time. Furthermore, food borne diseases (FBDs) can cause disability; these diseases can be caused by toxins produced by bacteria or other toxic substances in the food, which can cause severe diarrhea, toxic shock syndrome, debilitating infections such as meningitis and even death. FBDs are transmitted through food contaminated with pathogenic microorganisms that have multiple factors of virulence, which gives them the ability to cause an infection; some bacterial genres can produce toxins directly in the food, but other genres can produce them once they have colonized the intestine. Among the pathogens involved in FBDs that are also considered to be toxigenic are Salmonella spp., Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio cholerae, Staphylococcus aureus, Clostridium botulinum, Clostridium perfringens, Bacillus cereus, Listeria monocyto-genes. Food borne diseases can be prevented and acute diarrhea syndromes, fever and even death from dehydration can be avoided, especially in children under the age of 5 and in immune-compromised people.
1.1 Introduction
Food colors are substances which added to food, food products and drink to changes its color to improve the visual quality of food for attraction of the consumer (Saeed et al., 2010). Food colors are classified as natural and synthetic food colors. Natural Food Color is derived from variety of sources such as seeds, fruits, vegetables, insect and microorganisms without any chemical treatment. In prehistoric times, natural colorants were usually obtained from the sources like flowers, leaves, berries, blossoms, barks and roots (Springer, 2014). Synthetic food colors are usually water-soluble chemical substances which have been made in factory and can be used in foods without any further processing. Ponceau 4R, Carmoisine, Erythrosine, Tartrazine, Sunset Yellow FCF are the examples of synthetic food colors (Meenakshi et al., 2007).
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