List of Recalled Foods

iguana

I know this is a health issue, but it is also the sort of general issue that should be seen by as many people as possible. i'll let the moderator decide if they want to move it.

This is a link to the list of recalled foods from supermarkets. The food is found to have a banned cancer causing food dye Sudan1. It is being taken off the shelves and if you have any of it at home, even if you bought it months ago, don't eat it.

Supermarkets in the UK are offering refunds if you return with the wrappers, I assume they are doing the same here.

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1171557,00.html

Blisterman

Why is it only supermarket brand food that contains that dye?

joe.

cheap ingredient, lots of favour maybe. thanks for the link. was wondering what foods it was. just pot noodles here from first quick glance

Creamy Goodness

and heinz ready meals

Morrigan

A few more than just the Pot Noodle are available over here:

127 Low Fat Caesar Dressing McDonalds Restaurants
174 Lloyd Grossman Sweet & Sour Sauce 370g & 450g jars
340 Shepherds Pie 400g Birds Eye
341 Colmans Seafood Sauce - 250ml Colman's
342 Colman's Prawn Cocktail Sauce
344 Worcester Sauce 150ml Crosse & Blackwell
345 Crosse & Blackwell Worcester Sauce
347 - 353 are Heinz stuff - mainly weight-watchers brand.
Then there's #354 Tomato Juice Cocktail 125ml & 200ml Schweppes/Coca Cola Enterprises
And numbers 244 - 284 are Spar and Tesco products.

snappieT

Funny how McDonalds only comes up once... with a dressing for one of it's "Healthy" ranges.

Surprised Pret-A-Manger is on it, would have thought that they provided higher class foods. Infact, here's a quote from their website:

Pret creates handmade natural food avoiding the obscure chemicals, additives and preservatives common to so much of the 'prepared' and 'fast' food on the market today.

Is Sudan1 natural?

maccydoodies

http://www.fsai.ie/alerts/fa/fa_05/fa20050218_table.PDF

Thats alink for all of the foods available in Ireland with this Sudan1 in it.

joe.

Sudan dyes are red dyes that are used for colouring solvents, oils, waxes, petrol, and shoe and floor polishes. They have been found in some chilli powder imported from India. They have also been found in a number of food products containing this chilli powder. Sudan dyes are not allowed to be added to food in the UK and the rest of the EU.

Fresh chillies are not affected. Investigations are continuing to identify whether any other products contain the following dyes, Sudan I, Sudan II, Sudan III and Sudan IV (otherwise known as scarlet red).

The Agency is working with local authorities to stop products containing Sudan dyes from being sold in the UK. It is also asking companies that produce and sell these products to ensure that they are withdrawn and recalled.

Since July 2003, cargoes of dried and crushed or ground chilli and curry powders coming into any EU Member State have to be accompanied by a certificate showing they have been tested and found to be free of Sudan I. Any consignment that does not have a certificate must be detained for sampling and analysis.

Random sampling must also be undertaken both at ports and by local authorities. The FSA and local authorities randomly sample more than 1000 consignments a year of imported chilli products. All consignments found to contain Sudan I to IV must be destroyed. When a consignment is split, each part must be accompanied by a copy of the certificate.

link

mike65

Jasus, the landfills of Britain are going to be even more a health hazard than already! Tonnes of cancer causing agent wafting about the place next summer! :eek:

Mike.

samo

Will go and throw out that bottle of worcester sauce in the cupboard now......

joe.

mike65 wrote:

Jasus, the landfills of Britain are going to be even more a health hazard than already! Tonnes of cancer causing agent wafting about the place next summer! :eek:

Mike.

Its in the majority of peoples systems at the moment I would think. Processed food is bad!!

Ciaran500

So how bad is this stuff? How much of a risk is it to us?

mike65

I suspect its a bit like with lab rats being force fed a kilo of sugar in 10 mins and then dying....I would'nt worry too much.

Mike.

Pigman II

Woo. Heinz BBQ sauce isn't mentioned. That's me sorted anyway

BuffyBot

I ate number 325 earlier today :eek:

simu

How horrible! I wonder if this will lead to a mass move away from ready made meals?

joe.

Do you know how long it takes to digest a banana?

Ciaran500

Do you?

Lisapeep

simu wrote:

How horrible! I wonder if this will lead to a mass move away from ready made meals?

It will not. If you read the article, then you woud have noticed that this Sudan1 dye is normally not included in the listed foods. An italian company normally screens the mentioned foods for the presence of the dye and then removes it. However, due to some error, the dye was not removed from a certain batch of the above foods. Therefore, the Sudan1 is only present in a small proportion of those foods and if you buy these foods in the future, they will not contain the dye.

Also, powder from these foods will not be found wafting around the country. That was very tabloid of you to say that!

RuggieBear

woot.....i've nothing on that list....amazing...considering the amount of white label stuff in my larder.

billy the squid

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1171821,00.html?f=dta

38 more products added to the list

I wonder how many other product out there are there that we dont know about.

RuggieBear

dammit...i've got worcester sauce crisps..... :mad:

joseph brand

@billy, link is dead.

Checked the website and it's acting the B0%*OX!!



Sorry, it IS working, just takes 20 mins. even with Broadband??

whiskeyman

this is going mad now.
It all depends on the quantity of this substance in each product and how pure it is. That's something that doesnt seem to be mentioned anywhere.
Trace amounts will probably do next to no damage... you'll get greater damage from all the salt thats in the processed food anyway!!

Alun

Just a mad thought, but why do you need to dye chili powder red in the first place, let alone use an industrial dye to do it? I mean, the stuff is red already, goddamit!

SantaHoe

snapscan1212p wrote:

Funny how McDonalds only comes up once... with a dressing for one of it's "Healthy" ranges.

Yeah, it's disturbing to see things like "Bird's Eye Healthy Options Beef Hotpot".
I wouldn't want to be a company on that list, years of expensive brand-building down the toilet I'm sure. :rolleyes:

Talliesin

It was perfectly legal to stick it in food until 2 years ago. If you drink diet coke or anything else with aspartame in it then having eaten one of the foods on the list isn't your main worry.

Cake Fiend

Pot Noodle Beef & Tomato is on it?? :eek:

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

John R

SantaHoe wrote:

Yeah, it's disturbing to see things like "Bird's Eye Healthy Options Beef Hotpot".
I wouldn't want to be a company on that list, years of expensive brand-building down the toilet I'm sure. :rolleyes:

It was a mistake by a supplier, it doesn't mean that the foods affected are ordinarily unhealthy, unless they claim to be free from additives and full of homemade ingredients I don't see how this should effect the standing of the companies involved.


Having said that I am SHOCKED that there are any suspect ingredients in pot noodles, SHOCKED :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

Stench Blossoms

i was about to buy ww bbq chicken meal today but i was short money.Glad i didnt buy it now. But that shop stocked almost all the main brand stuff mentioned on the list

Tobias Greeshman

From my understanding of this, if you buy one of the recalled food items in a shop now, its very unlikely to be dangerous. Its only items that were purchased a few weeks ago are more likely to be dangerous. But yeah orla better to be safe than sorry.