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A further five soy sauce products on New Zealand shelves have tested positive
for a potentially cancer-causing chemical.
Director General of Health releases health warning on more varieties or Soy
Sauces. The main New Zealand Ministry of Health soy sauce information page can
be found here.
More reports on the cancer warnings over soy sauces in the Guardian.
Malaysia also bans soy sauces, reports BBC News.
More Soy Sauce on the Mercola web page.
The Australia & New Zealand Food Authority follows the UK trend and takes
emergency measures to ban all unfermented soy sauces. Details can be found at
their Web Site.
A number of soy sauce brands identified in the British study are also available
in New Zealand with warnings being issued from the New Zealand Ministry of
Health. Newspapers have been inundated with articles relating to the issue.
Follow this soy sauce link to read articles published in New Zealand newspapers.
Safety issues about carcinogens in soy sauces have also been raised in Canada.
The " TIMES " of London reports that the United Kingdom Food Standards Agency has
raised safety issues about carcinogens being present in some soy sauces. Read
about it in the TIMES and United Kingdom Food Standards Agency websites. New
Zealand supermarket chains have also announces the withdrawal of all soy sauces
from their stores. This action addresses the concerns that we have expressed
for years. That is that modern processed soy bears no safety relationship to
the carefully fermented soy products of ancient Chinese times. Hydrolysed soy
protein is a modern method of presenting toxic waste from oil extraction as
suitable human food. See our GRAS and Soy Toxins pages for more information.
Just two teaspoons a day of soy sauce containing 3-MCPD and 1,3-DCP is enough
the exceed European Safety Limits by up to 20 times for a woman, and 10 times
for a man. More information on the Mercola web site.
The British Food Standards agency has admitted to FOOD MAGAZINE that the
carcinogenic risks of soy sauces that led to withdrawals of products in New
Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom in June 2001 were only the tip
of a huge iceberg. It may even have been a tactic to divert attention from the
full extent of the danger. This confirms what Soy Online Service has been saying
for years... that modern processing is an unworkable short-cut that is flooding
the whole food chain with unacceptable levels of carcinogens. No wonder its only
US FDA approved use is as a cardboard sealer, and no wonder it failed its safety
evaluation because of its high risk of causing cancers, See GRAS.
For those concerned about the recent soy sauce findings the UK Food Standards
Agency provides a list of those soy sauces tested and found unsafe.
New Zealand Press Association
22/6/01 Stay Off The Soy, Warns Director-General
New Zealand Herald
6/10/01 Oyster sauce warning from Ministry of Health
21/9/01 More soy sauce products fail tests
22/6/01 Ministry Cancer Alert On Soy Sauce
22/6/01 Woolworths Pulls Soy Sauces From Shelves
23/6/01 Long Wait For Word On Soy Sauce
25/6/01 Soy Sauce Ban Likely From Today
Wellington Dominion
23/6/01 Cancer Chemicals Scare Takes Soy Sauce Off Shelves
23/6/01 Cancer Chemicals Warning Takes Soy Sauce Off Shelves
25/6/01 Soy Sauce Imports To Be Stopped
26/6/01 Counterfeit Brands Of Soy Sauce Products Raises Concerns
The Canterbury Press
23/6/01 Supermarkets Drop Soy Sauce
Waikato Times
22/6/01 Soy Products Recalled After Health Scare
22/6/01 Soy Sauce Taken Off The Shelf
23/6/01 No Soy-onara From Takeaways Clients
26/6/01 Soy Danger Stays On Shelves
The Mail
22/6/01 Scare Over Soy Sauce Ingredients
Taranaki Daily News
23/6/01 Confusion Over Soy Sauce Scare
The Timaru Herald
23/6/01 Top Priority To Be Safe With Soy Sauces
The Southland Times
23/6/01 Warning Prompts Removal Of Soy Sauce
General
22/6/01 Soy Sauce Hunt Begins In UK
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