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26 October 2008

"What came first..."

"...the melamine... or the egg?"
-- HONG KONG (AP) -- Excessive levels of the industrial chemical melamine in Chinese eggs might be traced to feed given to chickens, the Hong Kong government said late Saturday.

In an earlier egg-related food safety scare, the banned cancer-causing industrial dye, Sudan Red, was used to color egg yolks.
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