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Title
Declaration
Certificate
Acknowledgement
Abstract
Keywords
Abbreviations
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Review of literature
2. 1. Chemical and biochemical aspects of food colourants
Natural Food colourants
Synthetic Food Colourants
Synthetic food colourants fall into four basic chemical classes
Colour Additive Regulations
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Colour Additive Regulation
Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) of the United Nations
Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA)
Prevention of Food Adulteration (PFA) Act, India
Food Colourant Usage Pattern
Non-permitted Colours in foods
2. 2. Genotoxicity of food colourants
Tartrazine
Erythrosine
Ponceau 4R
Sunset Yellow
Indigo Carmine
Fast Green FCF
Carmoisine
Brilliant Blue
Assays used for the detection of genotoxicity
Cytokinesis-Block Micronucleus (CBMN) Assay
3. Aims and Objectives
4. Materials and Methods
5. Results
5. 1. Chemical and biochemical aspects of food colourants
5. 2. Genotoxicity of food colourants
6. Discussion
6. 1. Chemical and biochemical aspects of food colourants
6. 2. Genotoxicity of food colourants
7. Summary and Conclusions
Bibliography