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Food alert on cancer-causing dye

Well this is a pretty big oopsie. But at least it’ll give the tabloids something to get their knickers in a twist about tomorrow. They’ve always liked cancer stories: I guess it was always the big unknown fear, before the hype about terrorism kicked off. Why are more people scared of terrorism now, with so little of it happening here, than they were when the IRA were blowing things up left, right, and centre? I don’t know.

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