Another food alert was issued yesterday after the cancer-causing dye Para Red was found in paprika on sale in supermarkets and food stores.
The Food Standard Agency’s (FSA) scientific advisers say that Para Red is very similar to Sudan I and “it would be very prudent to assume that it could be a genotoxic carcinogen”.
The FSA said the affected products were: Bart Ground Paprika in 48g glass jars with the batch code 5032 and a best-before date of the end of December 2007, batch number 5089 with the same best-before date, and Co-op Ground Paprika in 46g glass jars with the batch code 5075 and a best-before date of the end of February 2007
The FSA said no other batch or date codes of the products were known to be affected.
