Visitors to a beach resort city in southwest Japan got a shock when they woke to discover the usually crystal-clear sea had turned an ominous shade of red.
Photos and videos shared online showed blood-red water flowing through the rivers and port areas of Nago city, on the island of Okinawa, a destination better known for emerald waters and sandy beaches. But a local brewery urged people not to worry, saying there had been a leak at one of its plants and that the discolored water posed no danger to humans or marine life.
Propylene glycol is commonly used in the food, cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries. The US Food and Drug Administration classifies it as “generally recognized as safe” for use in food. Orion Breweries also apologized for causing “inconvenience and enormous trouble and worry” and said it had launched an investigation and was working with authorities to take “counter measures.
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