Oh, never mind!
Posted on 03/02/2005 10:23:55 AM PST by LibWhacker
LONDON (Reuters) - Sudan's ambassador wants to know why a cancer-causing dye that caused a food scare in Britain is named after his country, but no one seems to have an answer.
Britain took 428 sauces, soaps and frozen meals off the shelves last week -- the biggest recall in UK history -- because a banned dye called Sudan 1 was found in a batch of chili powder used to make Worcestershire sauce.
But that didn't please the country of the same name.
Ambassador Hassan Abdin told Reuters his embassy had written to the Food Standards Agency asking for an explanation.
"Our concern is that this could do damage to the image of the country and to its name and exports. The name Sudan is rather unique as the name of the country," he said Wednesday.
"There must be an explanation. They are using it. You can't just use a name without knowing what it means."
A Food Standards Agency spokeswoman said she was trying to find out exactly how the chemical, which is used as a medical dye but is considered unfit for human consumption in food, got its name. It appears to have been called Sudan 1 since it was discovered by a scientist named Daddi in 1896.
"We weren't around in 1896. So we weren't responsible for naming it," she said.
They should rename it France 1.
Seeing as how the Sudan is not busy at work hacking the heads off of every Christian the government thugs can lay their hands on, how exactly is being associated with the name of a particular food dye going to damage their image?
Maybe it's called Sudan 1 because it is the same color as bloodstained sand...
did you mean "now busy?"
"damage to the image of the country "
I doubt anything can lower the image of their country in the eyes of the world any further
Yeah, those typos that are not spelling errors just slip right thru...
I kinda like that. Perhaps Decon rat poison could be renamed as "Essence of Islam".
Lol, I'm offended he's offended. Two can play the bs offended game.
Oh, never mind!
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