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Allergy to Tartrazine in Antidepressants

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Journal Am J Psychiatry
Specialty Psychiatry
Date 1987 Feb 1
PMID 2949635
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Abstract

The authors describe five cases of apparent allergy to tartrazine (FD&C yellow dye number 5) in 170 patients exposed to the dye in antidepressants. The frequency of tartrazine sensitivity was much higher than the reported frequency of six in 1,000 persons.

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