US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Other Foods

Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by hattmall on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:26AM (#42712985)

But red dye has little to no value to consumers and there are equally viable alternatives. No one is going to start bootlegging red dye 3 if it is banned. Alcohol has huge value and is basically impossible to ban.

What does B12 in alcohol do?

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by cogman10 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:27AM (#42713014)

B1 and B12 it should be.

As for what that does [1], wet brain.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wernicke_encephalopathy

If someone you know is an alcoholic, try and get them to take b vitamins.

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by johnisgood on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:36AM (#42713177)

If you are asking what would putting B12 (or B1) in alcohol do: prevent serious irreversible deficiencies that are not only horrible for the person themselves, but people as a whole, one way or another.

Call it risk reduction.

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by SketchySeaBeast on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:57AM (#42713542)

But have those dye alternatives been proven safe assuming an equally rigour test of "well, this might cause cancer but we can't actually prove it"?

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