24 hours later, they are returned to the ocean. If the mixture is contaminated, it clots instantly. If the rabbit died or got sick, the lab disposed of the drug. After receiving reports that some teenagers in the U.S. are tinting their contact lens with food coloring, The American Optometric Association has issued an alert. They warn that this can be very dangerous.
Some people can have serious allergic reactions to the food coloring.
Also, since the dye is not sterile, this could lead to eye infections. Furthermore, dark colors may impair vision. A new food source is changing the color of baboons near Kenya's Lake Bogoria. The primates have been dining on pink flamingoes. More than a million of these birds have recently arrived at the lake to feast on the lake's protein rich rotifers and blue-green algae.