AR-News: (India) Dyes found in Chicken tikka masala

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Shyam Bhatia in London | March 24, 2004 08:26 IST


Less than 24 hours after British Prime Minister Tony Blair praised business 
process outsourcing as a potential benefit to the United Kingdom's economy, 
another Indian export has come under attack from different quarters.
Chicken tikka masala has arguably done more to raise India's profile in the 
UK than the Kohinoor diamond or even the Taj Mahal. But now the dinner dish, 
which is reportedly even more popular than fish-and-chips, has tested positive 
for food dyes that may cause hyperactivity, asthma and even cancer.
Random checks carried out on 102 samples found that more than half were using 
dangerous quantities of dyes that exceeded the permissible limits.



full story:

http://in.rediff.com/news/2004/mar/24shyam.htm 
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