Where red 40 sits in the Sniff System
red 40 is a flagged ingredient in the Sniff Controversial Ingredient Penalty list. Products that include it incur a methodology-specified penalty. The penalty is documented, versioned, and challengeable through the corrections process.
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Similar ingredients in the catalog
Sniff's semantic graph clusters these ingredients near red 40 by formulation profile. Each links to its own ingredient page.