Written at roughly the same time as the first big scare about Mad Cow Disease. At the time the papers were trying to persuade us that we were all going to die from Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis. It hasn't happened of course. We all died from bird flu instead. Apparently.
Surely the hundreds and thousands would have been covered in various azo coal tar dyes like tartrazine and sunset yellow as whell as shellac which were probably worse in large quanities then some of the 'Hazards' above. I'll get my coat...
ReplyDeleteStill nice to read strups that weren't published :)