The issue of synthetic color additive effects arose in 2007 when a study at the University of Southampton in the United Kingdom linked certain mixtures of colors and the preservative sodium benzoate with hyperactivity in children. The European Food Safety Authority in November of 2009 lowered the acceptable daily intakes for the artificial colors quinoline yellow (E104), sunset yellow FCF (E110) and ponceau 4R (E124).
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