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Finally, CA is acting on these unhealthy lab products masquerading as food. Only last year, CA signed into law an upcoming (2027) ban on brominated vegetable oi
by reducesuffering 2y ago
Finally, CA is acting on these unhealthy lab products masquerading as food. Only last year, CA signed into law an upcoming (2027) ban on brominated vegetable oil (BVO), potassium bromate, propylparaben, and Red 3.
Now, the FDA just last month revoked regulations allowing the use of BVO in food. It's been banned in most EU countries since 1970!
- slowmovintarget 2y agoRegulatory capture at work. The FDA doesn't work for the tax payer anymore. Our regs would look a lot like Euro regs if they did. Glyphosate, BVO, titanium dioxide (taste the rainbow!), all artificial transfats, hydrogenated soybean and cottonseed oils, ractopamine (pig feed), pink slime, yellow 5, yellow 6, red 4,5,6, and 40, rBGH / rBST (growth hormone for cows), chlorine baths for chicken, atrazine (have some birth defects with your corn)... and the list goes on. All of those things are used in U.S. foodstuffs, which is why so many U.S. food exports are banned in Europe and elsewhere. They're not good enough, or actively harmful. We have food science on these items going back many decades, but Monstanto (now Bayer?) and Dow Chemical throw millions of dollars around to ensure their chemicals still get used on U.S. crops. CA law can be overly picky about a lot of things, but health and safety is one area where they're the good kind of picky.