Talk:Brilliant Blue FCF

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I've removed: In some circumstances, Brilliant Blue FCF has been linked to death. This sentence needs to be expanded if it's to be included. --jpgordon∇∆∇∆ 15:24, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Its banned in a few more countries, but don't know how too add them without messing up the whole page... Poland, Portugal, Trinidad, Turkey, Argentina, Mauritius, Czech Republic, Hungary, Morrocco... http://www.laleva.cc/food/enumbers/E131-E140.html is the source of my data...

'The dye is poorly absorbed from the gastro-intestinal tract and 95% of the absorbed dye can be found in the urine.'
It is either one or the other.
Checked it out on toxnet, it is excretion route is almost exclusively faecal. I will try and update it myself, but if it doesn't work, this note is here for the next person --Quality Alison 06:48, 1 May 2007 (UTC)Quality Asin

[edit] Any specific examples of foods that include this dye?

I noticed that this article begs the question which specific foods this dye is in. The article would be improved if someone could include a sentence or two listing a few specific examples of particular foods or food brands that use the dye. Dugwiki 21:27, 7 June 2007 (UTC)