How much Sudan1 ?

[ianess]

What quantity of this casinogenic material are we talking about?  A 50Kg bag, a container truck-load, a container ship-load??  If the stuff is so dangerous and illegal what was it doing anywhere near the food chain?

[MissyA369]

Well it's not THAT dangerous, but we have been told to just avoid it. They still don't have all the answers to how much of a problem it is.

[ianess]

Wot.............like cigarette smoke?..........Ye Gods.......mass panic all round.      So it'll turn up at the local boot sale or market stall then?

[incitatus]

it really isnt that dangerous.  its a cancer suspect agent, but then a lot of things are.  its probably rather less dangerous than stilton cheese or barbecued food for example. 

[j2buttonsw]

Casinogenic: sudan-1 turns you into a casino? Only kidding. As incitatus says, most things are toxic it is just to what degree. I suspect they use it in μg/mg quantities which they now have found is no longer acceptable by whatever test they use.

[5029]

The Express reported that we would need to eat 2 tonnes of it every day for 6 months before we would develop cancer

[bernardo]

The original batch was about 5 tonnes of dye.  The Telegraph said that humans would have to eat 2 tonnes of Worcester sauce every day for 2 years in order to get (as a proportion of bodyweight) the amount of sudan1 which was given to the rats in the experiments.