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Soy Sauce Soy Sauce Health Scare Links 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. Go here 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 (search for soy sauce). 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 Nelson 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 |