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The US Food and Drug Administration proposed a ban on brominated vegetable oil — an ingredient in some sodas — that has toxic effects on the thyroid, animal studies showed.

The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed revoking its regulation authorizing the nationwide use of brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, as an additive in food.

The FDA’s decision comes after California banned the ingredient in October by passing the California Food Safety Act, the first state law in the United States to ban brominated vegetable oil. The additive is already banned in Europe and Japan.

“The agency concluded that the intended use of BVO in food is no longer considered safe after the results of studies conducted in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health … found the potential for adverse health effects in humans,” said James Jones, the FDA’s deputy commissioner for human foods, in a statement.

  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 year ago

    Sounds like our one friend a while back. He was super skinny and didn’t drink alcohol but he would bring a 12 pack of Pepsi with him and would call them blue bullets. We had no idea how he survived, years later he even got an ok report from the doctor which we all thought was crazy including himself. He has stopped in recent years, thankfully, and knew even though nothing happened yet something bad was definitely going to sooner or later.