DYE MATERIAL TEST

BANDUNG, 8/8 – FOOD TEST. An officer from Bandung’s Food and Drugs Monitoring Agency (BPOM) tests Chinese candies and sweets at the BPOM Laboratory in Bandung, West Java, August 8, 2007. The test is done to found out whether the sweets and candies contain Rhodamin and Methnyl Yellow, dangerous substance which are usually used as industrial dye. Previously BPOM has found 39 out of 45 samples of Chinese food products are positive of containing formaldehyde. FOTO ANTARA/Angger Bondan Kuspradityo/Koz/nz/ox/07.