The food and drink additives, which have been linked to health issues, could be removed from products nationwide as a result of the new law.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that bans four food additives linked to health problems, the first time a state has outlawed chemicals allowed by the Food and Drug Administration.
Starting in 2027, California will prohibit red dye No. 3, potassium bromate, brominated vegetable oil and propylparaben after Newsom, a Democrat, signed Assembly Bill 418 into law Saturday. All four ingredients have been made illegal in the European Union and some other parts of the world, but they can be found in commonly sold items in the U.S., such as some brands of orange soda, icing, hamburger rolls, candies and processed foods.
The chemicals have been associated with issues from hyperactivity in children to cancer.
What’s sad to me is seeing that they are banned in other countries and these companies have already adjusted their recipes for those countries. They chose to keep the more dangerous chemicals in the US because they weren’t forced to change. The US seems to not care about it’s citizens
In the long run out seems like you could sell more shit if your customers are alive but it would cut into quarterly profits and that’s what really matters.
capitalism is so cool. you’d think it’d be easier to just have one recipe for everywhere but noo
The FDA banned Red Dye 3 ~30 years ago… for cosmetics. Can’t put it in makeup, but food? ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Gotta wonder how much money it took to make the FDA look the other way.
That’s fine. Red Peeps are an abomination unto the lord. The one true Peep is the yellow Peep.
Had to Google these:
Potassium bromate is in flour and baked goods Brominated vegetable oil is in certain sodas Propylparaben is in certain packaged snacks like trail mix and muffins
Potassium Bromate is used in many industrial baking products, it strengthens gluten. This is important commercially because it gives a stronger bread product in a shorter time. The regular flour you buy for home use does not contain it, though some ‘bread mixes’ have, at least previously.
It’s great that it is being banned, it should have been a long time ago.
Brominated Vegetable Oil is one of the top ingredients in Mountain Dew, and I wouldn’t doubt that Red Dye No. 3 is in the LiveWire version.
About time. My wife was floored by all the weird-colored shit in the US. It’s also why some of my childhood guilty pleasure snacks are banned for sale as-is here
