California becomes the first state to ban four chemicals in food, including red dye No. 3
California becomes the first state to ban four chemicals in food, including red dye No. 3
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.
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.
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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.
It's surprisingly cheap to buy politicians and officials, like a couple of grand would do it
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So corruption.
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any United States Government office is fullbto the brim with thumb wrestlers
Here, you dropped this: \
There are parts of reddit culture that shouldn’t be imported to lemmy
It's a joke about escaping characters correctly. It's not a reddit joke. It's way older than that.
Yes because Reddit was the first website with emoticons and markdown