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
Yep. They’re banned here in Canada so a shit ton of American food is just illegal here across the border. It’s kind of insane that it went on this long. The whole “Red M&Ms are illegal in Europe” thing has been known for a while.
Companies, like people, always act in self interest, so it makes sense.
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.
They don’t care about the company’s future beyond their own personal gains from it.
Tbh, I doubt that they would care in the slightest if the entire company closed the day after they left/retired. It seems like almost all CEOs have that target these days.
capitalism is so cool. you’d think it’d be easier to just have one recipe for everywhere but noo
Oh, easier, sure. But the spreadsheet says!!
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: \
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That’s fine. Red Peeps are an abomination unto the lord. The one true Peep is the yellow Peep.
Amen!
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
Imagine if the FDA did its job instead of forcing individual states to do it for them. California doesn’t always get things right, but god damn is this a massive W.
Worth noting the EU probably didn’t “make” them illegal.
The US requires a substance to be proven dangerous to be banned from use in food substances, the EU requires it to be proven safe to be allowed for use in food substances.
But…. What about… love potion #9?
It makes you kiss cops. I don’t recommend it.
Well that’s why it should be banned, yeah.
On the other hand, you do have a chance of a relationship with Sandra Bullock, so there’s highlights and lowlights.
About damn time.
In Europe round-up is still allowed for professional use even though it’s linked to cancer and parkinsons disease.
Newsom gonna have carpal tunnel in his wrist after all this signing he’s been doing lately.
Funny enough I used to be allergic to red dye as a kid as it made my skin break out
Wow, of all the red dyes in the world they had to pick my favorite one. This wouldn’t have happened if Trump was president.
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CA being a tyrant the best way it knows how. Through ineffectual socialist policies.
How is this socialist?
Because California law
so·cial·ism
a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.Again, how is this socialist?
I take it that you are an anarchist, right? Other things that are socialist: the military, the police, roads, schools, the fire department, parks. If you like those, you are a socialist, my friend.
This person isn’t an anarchist. Just a normal right winger.
