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The Chinese government has asked Kentucky Fried Chicken to stop selling three products in which a carcinogenic food coloring has been found in recent weeks. The substance called Sudan has been found in the company's 'New Orleans' chicken, chicken burgers, and spice pickle powder. More than 1,000 KFC restaurants across the country have now stopped selling those items.
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Last Updated 21/03/2005, 22:56:22 The cancer-causing food coloring Sudan I has been found in more Kentucky Fried Chicken products in China.
The red dye was first found in the company's New Orleans chicken wings and chicken burgers last week.
The products have since been removed from more than 1,000 outlets in China and destroyed.
The banned dye has now been found in KFC's spice pickle powder, used to produce spiced drumsticks, spiced chicken wings and chicken-flavored popcorn.
Xinhua news agency has quoted the Beijing food safety office as saying that KFC has been asked to suspend sales of the three products until they pass inspections.
The food safety department in Hefei city, in east China's Anhui province, has also banned seven KFC outlets from selling foods found to be tainted with Sudan 1.
Earlier this month China launched a food safety inspection when the dye was detected in a pepper sauce produced by a subsidiary of American company Heinz, Heinz-Meiweiyuan Food Co., Ltd. in Guangzhou.
State media reports that the dye has been found in 12 provinces and municipalities sparking recalls of suspect products.
The dye, traditionally used for coloring solvents, oils, waxes, petrol and shoe and floor polishes, was at the centre of a European health scare in February which led to the recall of hundreds of products.
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