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this food additive causing cancer
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| Phil raa |
| does anyone give a rats ? |
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| Coup |
| i don't even know where to begin to reply to that. |
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| MaRt |
| Not really. It's probably one of thousands of potentially harmful additives hidden in the foods we eat. :p |
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| Coup |
i think people have the right to be informed if something as serious as an illegal substance that can cause cancer has been leaked into foods.
if someone you're close to died because no1 cared enough to mention the foods involved, i think you'd have a different view. |
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| Technaut |
| did someone you know die coup? |
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| Coup |
| no but thats not the point. |
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| Phil raa |
everything's killing us..
at least with controlled substances you get a more interesting ride
there was a program on tv a few weeks back: can i trust: sausages. |
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| Coup |
| granted if u knew everything about what goes on in everything you'd probably end up starving yourself, but this is only a temp situation with such massive results if u are effected, so i think saying avoid foods x, y, and z for x weeks is a good decision. |
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| Ste |
the problem with sudan 1 is that it's highly carcinogenic as opposed to "if you sunbath too long you might get cancer". rememebr it's not an additive, its actually a dye.
and yeh i saw the sausage program. and a few of the other ones in the series. |
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| MaRt |
| quote: | Originally posted by Ste
and yeh i saw the sausage program. and a few of the other ones in the series. |
Ho no! I love sausages. |
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| dj_mdma |
| quote: | Originally posted by MaRt
Ho no! I love sausages. |
:haha: :haha:
and in reference to this Sudan 1 thing, as a worker at the front line of food retail, AND as a pharmacologist.
I say, that its probably not as bad as it seems. To get cancer from sudan 1, you'd probably have to eat a lot of it, on a regular basis for a prolonged amount of time, before you'd even begin to start developing cancer of the bowel or something. Think of cigarettes, the stuff in them is HIGHLY carcinogenic with a greater chance of causing cancer with sudan 1, but a lot of people are happily getting by :wtf:
The amount of it that is in food, is extremely small. If you look up the risks for Aspartame (the sweetener in diet coke) that is also attributed to health risks (even cancer iirc), but you'd have to have so much of it.
So in summary, if you've eaten anything with it in, don't worry too much, but i'd avoid eating 10 more packs of pot noodle, only eat a few more :toothless |
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| mef |
yeah heheh there was a question about this in my pub quiz the other night :D
So I care because I got the answer right :) |
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