Deadly Color

Anyone living in China, please do pay attention when purchasing the food with bright colors which might have been dyed with poisonous pigments harmful to your health. The picture above shows market administrators found yellow croakers dyed with a yellow pigment called Huang Na Feng (yellow sodium powder) used to be a compositition in paints at a seafood market in Lianyungang, east China's Jiangsu Province March 20. It is aslo learned that 12 routinely consumed fruits like citrus, litchi. apples, pears, grapes, watermelons, bananas, peach, longans, mangoes, persimmons and jujube in Guangzhou may either contain overdosed growth-stimulated hormones, preservatives and coloring agents, or have been waxed and bleached. Doesn't sound so horrific?