Today’s Maine Sunday Telegram includes an article on the efforts by W.A. Bean & Sons to find an alternative to artificial red dye in their hot dogs.
“We’ve been working on a replacement for that dye for a long time — it’s been a goal of ours,” said W.A. Bean Director of Sales Sean Smith, pointing to a rack of red snapper links fresh out of the dye shower in the “kitchen” at Bean’s production plant. “We’re not fighting science. We want to get ahead of it as well. We want to make sure we can stand behind a product the people of Maine are proud of.”