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Pink quinine mystery solved
MODERN information technology is a great boon – although Feedback sometimes suspects that its main function is settling pub arguments.
We recently mentioned an extremely bored afternoon whiled away reading the UK Post Office Guide, back when it was an inch-thick paper publication (6 July). We had idly wondered why it was against the rules to post “quinine coloured pink” to India.
A colleague who read the column quickly fired back an explanation, garnered by the simple expedient…
