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Sunny D spill kills fish

Over 2,000 gallons of Sunny D concentrate leaked from a UK factory into a nearby waterway Wednesday, killing dozens of fish, according to the Daily Mail. The juice, which was deemed substandard, had been sent to an underground tank where it was to await proper disposal. The tank was cracked, apparently, and sent approximately six tons of juice into a tributary of the River Parrett (right) in Bridgwater, Somerset. The spill was deemed a category one incident, the most serious rating issued by the government's Environment Agency. A category one incident can entail "persistent and extensive effects on [water] quality," "major damage to the ecosystem," and "serious impact upon man," according to the EA.

[Photo: SWNS]

Filed Under: Business, Food Oddities, Newspapers, Drink Recipes
Tags: bridgwater, british isles, fish, juice, kill, oddities, somerset, spill, sunny d, sunny delight, SunnyD, uk

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Anne

5-19-2006 @6:56PM Anne said... Oooo...if that's what it does to fish, does anyone want to make a guess what it does to OUR bodies??? YUCK!
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Adam

5-19-2006 @8:00PM Adam said... "The juice, which was deemed substandard,"

when the end result is Sunny Delight you really have to wonder just how bad the juice was to get rejected
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Angelica

5-19-2006 @8:39PM Angelica said... I wouldn't be to worried about the 'what it does to our bodies' part. I mean...it is concentrate. Fish breathe in WATER, not Sunny D juice...that has no OXYGEN in it. That is all.

It is just media spinning a story around. It was an accident. And the fish died because of lack of oxygen. Not what was in the juice.

And it was probably substandard because it failed a chemical component. Too much orange maybe. Or not enough tart-lemon-lime. Maybe Britney Spears dumped a bottle of gin into it. Who cares...

My big question is...I would like to see a bigger version of that photo. That thumbnail looks doctored.

MY two cents!
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Angela Pitt

5-19-2006 @10:49PM Angela Pitt said... I like Sunny D. It hasn't killed me yet; might explain
where that nervous twitch came from, though.
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jason

5-20-2006 @1:14AM jason said... sounds like the Plot of V for Vendetta
look out in november


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