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Arpan Rai
Wed, 28 June 2023 at 8:20 pm SGT

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Visuals of the river in Nago city in Japan’s Okinawa showed that the water had turned deep red in colour.

Officials of a beer factory later confirmed that a food colouring dye had leaked into the river through the rain gutter but did not pose any health risks.

Beer factory Orion Breweries issued a statement shortly after and apologised for “causing enormous trouble and worry”.

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Officials at the brewery said the chemical propylene glycol had resulted in the colour change. The chemical is used as a food additive by factories in the cooling process.

Commonly used in drug and cosmetic industries, it is “generally recognised as safe


Photo and video here showing a much wider river: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/japanese-port-...10083.html

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