# D&C Red 10

URL: https://app.greenveil.ai/ingredients/ingredient_cas_1248_18_6
Categories: beauty, industrial
Functions: colorant, Dye

> D&C Red 10 is used as colorant / dye. Greenveil chemical-concern score: 20/100 — Minor concern.. Assessed from 5 sources.

## Safety assessment

- Chemical concern score: 20/100 — Minor concern.
- Confidence: 4
- Rationale: Sodium 2-[(2-hydroxynaphthyl)azo]naphthalenesulphonate and its insoluble barium, strontium and zirconium lakes, salts and pigments is listed in Annex IV of the EU Cosmetics Regulation (EC) 1223/2009 (colorants allowed in cosmetic products).

_Assessed by Greenveil._