What the FDA's ban of BVO — a soda additive and flame retardant — says about food safety in America
What the FDA's ban of BVO — a soda additive and flame retardant — says about food safety in America
"It's disgraceful that it took decades of regulatory inaction to protect consumers from this dangerous chemical"
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Um so when I grab a mountain dew at the store I am consuming a flame retardants? So does that mean I can douse myself in soda and run into a burning building?
4 0 ReplyWater is also a soda additive and flame retardant
19 1 ReplyIt's also an industrial solvent!
Not to minimize the fact that BVO is known to be toxic and should have been banned years ago, but yes I hate when they make stupid comparisons like that
10 0 Replybut bro. its brominated.
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You'd find yourself in a hot pickle, Don Dickle.
6 0 ReplyYou're like the line in the movie that has the title in it.
2 0 ReplyONE MAN.
ONE PICKLE.
4 0 ReplyI feel like you've missed a golden opportunity it to make "dickle" into a suggestive verb. Like "Pickle Patrol 2: Debbie Gets Dickle'd"
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Mountain Dew stopped including BVO in 2019. So you've been in the clear for at least 4 years.
3 0 ReplyIt has had it here in Colorado still.
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Bromine is used in flame retardants AND in brominated vegetable oil. Like chlorine is used to clean your pool water and as a component of table salt.
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