UK News 25-02-2005 who: Food Standards Agency what: Orders supermarkets to withdraw hundreds of contaminated products when: Friday February 18th snippet: The Guardian calls is "arguably the worst health scare since the BSE crisis" after the biggest recall in the British food manufacturing history was triggered by the discovery of potentially cancer-causing red dye in batches of Crosse and Blackwell Worcester Sauce which had in turn become an ingredient in over 400 products on supermarket shelves. However, FSA spokesman Dr Jon Bell stressed that there was no immediate danger from eating food tainted with Sudan 1. The Mirror`s Christine Morgan is provoked to investigate other food additives which have a "minuscule" risk but which are entirely legal in Britain, such as tartrazine, banned in Norway and Finland, and Cyclamate E952, which was the subject of "a massive health scare in the US after tests on rats showed it may cause bladder cancer". And in other dietary news, a new study claims that feeding your children vegan food can be harmful to their health. [... more]

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