Color has been added to food to enhance the visual appeal for several
hundreds of years. In the developing food industry of the late
19th century a wide range of synthetic colors were used, but issues
over the toxicity of these additives has led to the development of legislation
regulating the types and quantities of synthetic colors in different
food products. As a result of these efforts, there is currently in
European Union (EU) a solid framework of legislation controlling the
use of color additives in food