KP Chicken flavour Ban??????

[flashermoose]

does anyone know which company stopped using 'unnatural' flavours in their crisps and what the story was?

[MrsJo49155]

It was colouring Sudan 1 - heres a clipping from the news 26.2.05:

Illegal food dye Sudan 1 has wreaked havoc. "Sars, Sarin � now Sudan 1. It's the worst scare I can remember," said one Department of Health official. "It's in nurseries, schools, hospitals, prisons. But it's not going to kill anyone. We'd been eating this shoe-polish dye for years before it was banned."

The contaminated chilli powder has cost the food industry �100 million already, and 474 products have been withdrawn: pizzas, McDonald's salad dressings, burgers, lasagnes and pies. But it has also drawn our attention to what is going into our food. So much natural flavour has been lost that a huge industry has grown up supplying colourants, flavourings and 400 additives to make our food more palatable again.

Sudan 1, of course, is more embarrassing than life-threatening. Above all, it shows that we are still a nation of Pot Noodle-eaters at heart.