Campaigners are claiming that artificial additives that can be found in popular soft drinks should carry health warnings.
Artificial colours such as E102 (tartrazine), E110 (sunset yellow) and E124 (ponceau red) which can be found in soft drunks and cakes carry warnings when they are used in medicines.
When used in medicines the additives carry these warnings: may cause allergic reactions, mildly irritant to the skin, eyes and mucous membranes or may rarely cause severe hypersensitivity reactions and bronchospasm can be found on the labels.
However when present in soft drinks the labels carry non of these warnings and at least one of these chemicals is present in a whole host of popular soft drinks including Diet Coke, Fanta and Robinsons orange squash.
Ian Tokelove, spokesman for the commission’s The Food Magazine, said: "Medical guidelines say that a warning should be given when these additives are used at even the lowest of levels.
He added: "For many people the additives appear to pose no immediate risk, but better labelling would ensure that susceptible adults and children would at least have a chance of identifying, and avoiding, the additives that may cause them harm."