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

Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by apwell23 on Thursday January 16, 2025 @07:30AM (#42724360)
Its regulation has nothing to do with its cancer causing properties. Why are you even bringing that irrelevant point here?

Who is being absurd now?

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by skeaker on Thursday January 16, 2025 @05:15PM (#42731605)
> Its regulation has nothing to do with its cancer causing properties.

Only because that's so far down on the list of immediate issues it causes.

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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by someothherguyy on Thursday January 16, 2025 @09:47PM (#42733571)
I am not sure you understood my comment. I wasn't calling anyone absurd, and I was using the fact that it is regulated to reinforce the idea that it is a known toxin.
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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by apwell23 on Saturday January 18, 2025 @11:22AM (#42749404)
Alcohol being regulated has nothing to do with it being a "known toxin".
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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by someothherguyy on Monday January 20, 2025 @07:34PM (#42774903)
Yeah, it does.
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Re:US Will Ban Cancer-Linked Red Dye No. 3 in Cereal and Oth... by apwell23 on Tuesday January 21, 2025 @09:48AM (#42780682)
no it doesn't.
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