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 paulryanrogers on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @07:29PM (#42719316)

Food isn't sold burnt from store shelves. Of course people may 'toast' it to unsafe levels. That's an educational issue.

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by mgraczyk on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @07:35PM (#42719358)

Untrue, you can buy burnt bread at most grocery stores. Go to the bakery, look at the ends. Many will have burnt tips.

Also: I've never bought this, but I just found this premade product, which is sold in my grocery store and is known to the state of California to cause cancer.

https://www.safeway.com/shop/product-details.197151007.html?...

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by Aloisius on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @08:28PM (#42719835)

Acrylamide is in all baked bread. It's formed during high temperature cooking - like baking.

Toasting just increases the amount present.

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by refurb on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @09:39PM (#42720386)

A good example is the cancer causing aflatoxin on peanuts.

https://www.fda.gov/regulatory-information/search-fda-guidan...

You could be enjoying some all natural peanuts and be exposing yourself to a highly carcinogenic byproduct of a fungus that grows on them.

Hell, people were doing that for millennia until some scientists actually discovered it.

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by WrongAssumption on Wednesday January 15, 2025 @11:48PM (#42721361)

I sure can get it in a restaurant.

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