URGENT FOOD WARNING
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I don't normally post news...
An urgent warning has been issued by the Food Standards Agency after a potentially cancer-causing dye was discovered in more than 350 widely-eaten food products.
www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1171545,00.html
List of foods here:
www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1171557,00.html
Read and digest, so to speak
Not sure why this happened... simple to avoid: DON'T PUT TIN OF POISON NEXT TO VAT OF FOOD!! F-wits.
Edit to say: haha... Tesco Healthy Living range affected!
>>> Edited by shadowninja on Friday 18th February 17:13
An urgent warning has been issued by the Food Standards Agency after a potentially cancer-causing dye was discovered in more than 350 widely-eaten food products.
www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1171545,00.html
List of foods here:
www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1171557,00.html
Read and digest, so to speak
Not sure why this happened... simple to avoid: DON'T PUT TIN OF POISON NEXT TO VAT OF FOOD!! F-wits.
Edit to say: haha... Tesco Healthy Living range affected!
>>> Edited by shadowninja on Friday 18th February 17:13
Anything causes cancer nowadays, once the press get hold of it, they make a meal out of it.
Wait til the local papers start picking out the schools that still hold stocks of Worcester sauce.
However, first thing Monday I will be chucking out my worcester sauce at work, darn, just bought the bloody thing
Wait til the local papers start picking out the schools that still hold stocks of Worcester sauce.
However, first thing Monday I will be chucking out my worcester sauce at work, darn, just bought the bloody thing
noI work as a supervisor in sainsbury's, and have spent a large portion of yesterday skipping thousands of pounds worth of stock, initially it just said serious quality issue, bit of investigation, every product contained worcester sauce.
Today the some more details were given to us, that the dye was illegal. They kept the cancer part quiet though.
Corporate bumpf stated that the FSA told us that it posed no short term risk to health, but in order to preserve our reputation the decision was taken to pull the lot.
Still when people get hessy with me because we haven't got any seafood sauce I can ask them whether they would prefer that or cancer.
Actually better not....
Today the some more details were given to us, that the dye was illegal. They kept the cancer part quiet though.
Corporate bumpf stated that the FSA told us that it posed no short term risk to health, but in order to preserve our reputation the decision was taken to pull the lot.
Still when people get hessy with me because we haven't got any seafood sauce
I can ask them whether they would prefer that or cancer. Actually better not....
This story does the rounds every now and then. The red colouring used in chilli is commonplace in chinese and asian foods often found in specialist supermarkets. Every now & then there is a warning about buying these foods because they dont meet our levels of regulation and this stuff has crept in. Of course its a big story now because it has gotten into 'the white middle class foodchain' and the media are loving it as its just their type of mega scaremongering story.
It goes without saying the the UK media havent been able to give us any proper facts about what the real risk actually is, if they did, then their headline story would be self cancelling and look silly.
It wouldnt surprise me if you had to ingest 10 gramms of this stuff every day for twenty years to put yourself at the same health risk as going out in traffic for an extra five minutes just once every six hundred years.
Living on granite is a massive health risk, but we dont suggest evacuating Scotland do we.
>> Edited by Balmoral Green on Friday 18th February 20:55
It goes without saying the the UK media havent been able to give us any proper facts about what the real risk actually is, if they did, then their headline story would be self cancelling and look silly.
It wouldnt surprise me if you had to ingest 10 gramms of this stuff every day for twenty years to put yourself at the same health risk as going out in traffic for an extra five minutes just once every six hundred years.
Living on granite is a massive health risk, but we dont suggest evacuating Scotland do we.
>> Edited by Balmoral Green on Friday 18th February 20:55
NHyde said:
OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE , WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN WHAT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, WHAT ABOUT THE LUVERLY CUDDLY WUDDLY FOXIES , WHAT ABOUT THE WORLD , PLEASE , SOMEBODY , PASS ME A ROPE !!!!!!!!!!!!
Dont worry the fluffy foxes are safe now.... they are just going sight seeing tomorrow
NHyde said:
OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE , WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN WHAT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, WHAT ABOUT THE LUVERLY CUDDLY WUDDLY FOXIES , WHAT ABOUT THE WORLD , PLEASE , SOMEBODY , PASS ME A ROPE !!!!!!!!!!!!
Nah pass me a gun so I can shoot some enviromentalists,peace protesters and foxes before I die
NHyde said:Don't worry about the children, they'll all be killed by nasty speeders first
OH MY GOD WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE , WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN WHAT ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, WHAT ABOUT THE LUVERLY CUDDLY WUDDLY FOXIES , WHAT ABOUT THE WORLD , PLEASE , SOMEBODY , PASS ME A ROPE !!!!!!!!!!!!
As for the foxes, they are about to inherit the Earth
1-phenylazo-2-naphthol
That's the puppy. I looked at the synthesis and it isn't that nasty, everyone was shouting about how toxic aniline was in the synthesis. Sure, you don't want to eat a teaspoon of the stuff, but there are probably more amounts of carcinogens allready present in your body, caffeine, theobrimine, serotonin etc. Alarm off.
Stu (Master of the molecules)
That's the puppy. I looked at the synthesis and it isn't that nasty, everyone was shouting about how toxic aniline was in the synthesis. Sure, you don't want to eat a teaspoon of the stuff, but there are probably more amounts of carcinogens allready present in your body, caffeine, theobrimine, serotonin etc. Alarm off.
Stu (Master of the molecules)
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