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New Study: Passive Smoking Poses Greater Cancer Risk than Food Dye Sudan 1 [03/02-1]
Excerpts from: PASSIVE SMOKING 'A GREATER DANGER THAN SUDAN 1 FOODS'
By LIZ HAWLEY Leicester Mercury [03/01/05]
Passive smoking poses a far greater health risk than products containing food dye Sudan 1, a professor said.
Hundreds of products have been banned from supermarket shelves after a batch of chilli powder containing the red dye found its way into the food chain.
Research has found that when rats were force-fed high levels of the dye, which is illegal in foodstuffs, they contracted cancer.
It is feared the same could happen to humans.
However professor Gerry Potter, from De Montfort University, said consumers were more likely to get cancer from passive smoking.
He said people would have to eat 100,000 contaminated pot noodles a day for a year, or drink 2,000 litres of contaminated Worcester Sauce a day for the same period, before they became in danger of contracting the disease.
"There is a much higher risk of getting it from passive smoking.
He said between 5,000 and 6,000 people who have never smoked die from lung cancer each year.
In around a third of cases the cancer is caused by passive smoking. Dr Peake said: "Contracting cancer from passive smoking is more likely than getting it from Sudan 1. There is no doubt.
"More people die from passive smoking than from leukaemia, cancer of the cervix, cancer of the womb and cancer of the ovaries."
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