Data for Certified Foods Dyes in Over the Counter Medicines and Supplements for Children and Pregnant Women

This dataset is raw data and summary of quantified FD&C dye levels in children’s gummy vitamins, children’s tablet vitamins, prenatal vitamins, children’s cough/cold/allergy tablets & syrups, and children’s pain reliever tablets & syrups determined by high performance liquid chromatography with a photometric diode array (HPLC-DAD). The data can further be interpreted against the dosage given by each brand in each category to evaluate the consumption of the FD&C dyes and ADIs suggested for each FD&C dye by the US FDA. Syrups have the highest levels for the dosage described on the label and can be a significant contributor to FD&C dye intake for children, while all tablets and gummy vitamins showed low enough levels to be an insignificant amount of dye contributed to the ADI for most children.

本数据集为经高效液相色谱-光电二极管阵列检测（High Performance Liquid Chromatography with Photodiode Array Detection, HPLC-DAD）定量得到的儿童软糖维生素、儿童片剂维生素、产前维生素、儿童止咳/感冒/过敏片剂与糖浆剂，以及儿童止痛片剂与糖浆剂中FD&C染料（FD&C Dye）含量的原始数据与汇总结果。可结合各品类下各品牌标注的服用剂量，对照评估儿童的FD&C染料摄入量以及美国食品药品监督管理局（US Food and Drug Administration, US FDA）为各类FD&C染料推荐的每日允许摄入量（Acceptable Daily Intakes, ADIs）。按标签标注的服用剂量计算，糖浆剂的染料含量最高，是儿童FD&C染料摄入的重要来源；而所有片剂与儿童软糖维生素的染料含量均处于较低水平，对多数儿童而言，其贡献的染料量未对每日允许摄入量造成显著影响。