The FDA said it had concluded that BVO was not safe for use after the results of studies, it conducted in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, found the potential for adverse effects in humans.
The agency had first proposed to revoke the regulation in November 2023. According to the Center for Science in the Public Interest, BVO was banned in the UK in 1970, followed by India in 1990, the EU in 2008 and Japan in 2010.
Wow 54 years after UK banned it. Thanks for looking out for us
PepsiCo removed it from Mtn Dew in 2019, after announcing it in 2014. I hope Dr. Pepper doesn’t get to drag their feet that long.
Only just over half a century late to the party
Though I guess you guys have bigger problems than something as silly as safe food to eat
Why do these fuckers get to just shove literally anything out there and only pull it once a regulatory body forces it out??? (BTW thanks Supreme Court for neutering said regulatory body 🖕)
WHY aren’t we forcing all this shit to be proven safe first
The best part:
In 1970, the FDA had concluded that its use in food was not generally recognized as safe because of toxicity concerns
So they knew it was likely not safe, gave the food manufacturers 50 years to find a substitute and then banned it.
That’s how these chemicals have always operated.
They can do whatever they want until it’s proven harmful. Time after time they’ve done internal studies showing the shit is toxic and they bury it.
Never any criminals charges, maybe some financial compensation after long court battle but never more than they profit.
Capitalism only works by externalizing these costs. They want you to believe, need you to believe it’s not a zero sum game but it’s not. It’s just these externalities.
Monetary policy doesn’t get to defy the laws of the universe, profit doesn’t come from the ether.
We pay with our health and our lives.
And it’s never acceptable to say this is not a good system, we have to propose an immediate alternative or we’re pigeonholed as a communist or whatever the capitalist limited mind is stuck on. Like a Christian assuming one either worships Christ or Satan because it’s unfathomable to choose neither. We are living through a capitalist inquisition.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brominated_vegetable_oil
Oh, great, it was in Gatorade until 2013 and a bunch of shit before then. We are all going to die of cancer
One case reported that a man who consumed two to four liters of a soda containing BVO on a daily basis experienced memory loss, tremors, fatigue, loss of muscle coordination, headache, and ptosis of the right eyelid, as well as elevated serum chloride.[30] In the two months it took to correctly diagnose the problem, the patient also lost the ability to walk. Eventually, bromism was diagnosed and hemodialysis was prescribed which resulted in a reversal of the disorder.
Hopefully not too bad.
