The 12-pack not only looks like a box of Crayola crayons, it comes with an eight-pack of the formerly retired Crayola crayons and some coloring pages, along with six flavors of soda (two of each ...

In 2011, the state of California created a problem for the soda industry. The caramel color that Coke and Pepsi used to give colas that distinctive brown hue contained a chemical, 4 ...

The Food and Drug Administration says there's no reason to believe that the coloring added to sodas is unsafe. But the agency is taking another look just to make sure. Skip Navigation.

Consumer Reports testing has raised concerns that the caramel coloring added to some sodas may be a potentially cancer-causing compound. ... Could the caramel-color additive in your soda cause cancer?

The agency's announcement comes in response to a study by Consumer Reports that shows varying levels of 4-methylimidazole -- an impurity formed in some caramel coloring at low levels during the ...