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Scary Food Dye Warning...


Sam Nichols

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They only have to recall this stuff to do the 'right thing'...

the ammount of the colouring is SO SMALL that your increasing your risk of cancer about the same as if you go outside on a sunny day for 30 minuites...

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But some people live off this stuff, and the thing with getting cancer is that it's not a build up - it happens when your cells divide...

Therefore the less often you expose yourself to this type of crap the less the chance of your dividing cells mutating.

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But some people live off this stuff, and the thing with getting cancer is that it's not a build up - it happens when your cells divide...

Therefore the less often you expose yourself to this type of crap the less the chance of your dividing cells mutating.

It's one batch, in a few random dishes...

The fact remains, going outside, smoking a cigarette, drinking a beer... they're all on the same 'cancer risk level' as this chemical.

They have to recall it because it's a banned substance, the press play off the whole 'cancer scare' thing.

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Again Alexx,

All these different things that have a chance of causing you to contract cancer may only be a very small chance that they'll do anything...

BUT

The more times we smoke ciggarettes the greater the chance that we MAY ocntract cancer, equally if we keep eating these foods the chances of us contracting cancer are again greatly increased.

This meens that by recalling the foods thats just one extra thing we dont have to be worried about.

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Yeah, we had to throw away about 15 cases of the 18-pack multipacks of Walkers crisps tonight at work. The thing is is that it was one batch of the flavouring that had the dye in, which is then divided out amongst other products, so again you're getting a tiny *tiny* percentage. Equally, it hasn't actually been proven that it does or will cause cancer in humans, in the same way you get people crying about people using mobile phones 'cos the radiation will microwave your brain, etc.

It's not as big a deal as is suggested, but I guess it does show they could do with more stringent monitoring for food supply routes. Seeing as it was just one batch of produce that had the dye in, and they've had to recall everything that "might" have it, it's just a bit inefficient really. Same way that they now monitor animal movements to try and stop a food and mouth-style problem again, if they did it with food stuff like this wouldn't happen in the first place?

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This meens that by recalling the foods thats just one extra thing we dont have to be worried about.

If your that worried about one tiny chemical in a food you eat, slightly increasing your risk of a cirtain random condition you need to live life a little more, stop living off endless statistics and the press...

... the other day I read that drinking more water decreases red cell count and can lead to weekened imune system... etc etc, you can go on with this stuff forever.

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Everything causes cancer these days.......i say we just enjoy our lives....

i never smoke, drink or anything though, as ive seen the effects these things have on people....i dont shop at asda either so im cool! But yeah the press needs to calm down a bit.

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The other day I read that drinking more water decreases red cell count and can lead to weekened imune system

Shit the bed, I drink about 3 - 4 litres a day :">

I hate this scaremongering kinda crap, has anyone seen the adverts for (I assume no-one's stupid enough to watch them) this program on Sky One, which covers the dangers of everyday things, I think it's called So You Think You're Safe. Example, the kitchen is very dangerous, or going on holiday, hate those kinda things . . . .

Edit: My english is actually wank now, was going to re-word my post but really can't be assed.

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Again Alexx,

All these different things that have a chance of causing you to contract cancer may only be a very small chance that they'll do anything...

I'm pretty sure he knows that. What he was saying was that it increased your chance of getting cancer by the same amount as if you went out in the sun for half an hour. It's pretty stupid though how they have to recall all the ready meals because of a trace of a possible carcinogen MAY be present. And yet the very same supermarkets still sell cigarettes with large quantities of 70 different known & proven carcinogens. :-

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I'm pretty sure he knows that.  What he was saying was that it increased your chance of getting cancer by the same amount as if you went out in the sun for half an hour.  It's pretty stupid though how they have to recall all the ready meals because of a trace of a possible carcinogen MAY be present.  And yet the very same supermarkets still sell cigarettes with large quantities of 70 different known & proven carcinogens.    :-

Yer, but people expect to die from smoking, not from eating a microwavable Shepherd's Pie.

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