UK recalls another 146 foods
2005-02-25 13:30
London - Britain's food safety watchdog on Thursday added another 146 products to a list of items tainted by a potentially cancer-causing dye in the country's largest food recall yet.
The total number of affected goods, ranging from ready-made-meals to popular sauces, came to 474 after a previous list of some 430 items issued by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) was found to have a number of duplications, it said.
"The vast majority of products contaminated with the illegal dye Sudan I have been removed from sale," the agency said in a statement.
"Consumers are reminded that the risk is very small, that there is no risk of immediate illness but it is sensible not to eat affected products," it said.
"No groups, whether young, in hospital, elderly or pregnant are exposed to anything other than a very small risk."
- AFP