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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by kstrauser on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @12:35PM (#42714152)
> according to research by DSM, a company that supplies pigmenting compounds to the salmon feed industry

Seriously?

Alternatively, if we stopped dyeing fish, a year later people will have totally recalibrated what they think fresh, healthy fish looks like.

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by canucker2016 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @06:57PM (#42719008)
Only for farmed salmon.

Wild salmon eat krill and other smaller organisms, many of which provide the components to turn the salmon meat a shade of pink.

Farmed salmon don't get the same components in their feed, so their meat isn't the same colour. So the farmers add some of those components into the salmon feed, et voila - pink salmon meat.

see https://www.dal.ca/news/2023/03/21/farmed-salmon-colour-heal...

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by idunnoman1222 on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @07:57PM (#42719570)
We feed chickens, Merigold flowers to make their yolks darker
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