"Kswck" > wrote in message
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> "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)
>
just had a look on the list of cancer-causing substances. Included on the
list was alcoholic drink, acetaldehyde (what the alcohol is (partially)
oxidised to in the blood) and testosterone. So, if you are female (really
female!) and don't drink, you should be OK, as long as you don't eat or
smoke.
cheers
Wazza