"zztopper" > wrote in message
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> China says cancer-causing red dye Sudan I found in Heinz products
> (AFP)
> 5 March 2005
>
> BEIJING - China said Saturday that a cancer-causing agent at the
> center of a European health scare has been found in edible products
> made by a subsidiary of the American multinational food giant Heinz
> Company.
>
> The red dye Sudan I been found in a pepper sauce made by the Heinz
> Meiweiyuan Food Co. based in Guangzhou, capital of southern China's
> Guangdong province, Xinhua news agency said.
>
> Following the discovery, the State Administration for Quality
> Supervision and Inspection and Quarantine ordered the company to
> immediately recall all of its products and ban its sale.
>
> Local inspectors were also dispatched to check restaurants and
> cafeterias to ensure that Meiweiyuan pepper sauce products were not
> being used, it said.
>
> The dye was found by the Food Standards Agency of Britain on February
> 18 in a batch of chili powder made by Premier Foods, one of the
> largest food and beverage companies in the United Kingdom.
>
> The agency also found the dye in products of companies such as
> Schweppes, Coca Cola and Unilever, Xinhua said.
>
> Sudan-I is traditionally used for coloring solvents, oils, waxes,
> petrol and shoe and floor polishes.
>
>

It's a mouthwash-NO! It's a floor wax.

It's a mouthwash AND a floor wax!
(ala SNL)