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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Great now I'll have to worry about my soda lighting on fire.
9 0 ReplyNah it’s a fire retardant so you’ll be fine if anything you can use your soda to put out fires
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Ok, without reading the article, let me see if I can guess what it says.
The population of the US exists to serve the needs of the 1% and no threat to the population matters unless the damage impacts their profits.
Am I close?
10 2 ReplyWorse: basically the rest of the world already banned it and a lot of other toxic stuff that is in our food.
9 0 ReplyI think my guess includes that by default. Unless the toxic stuff in our food is costing the 1% money, in which case it would be odd that they permit it.
7 0 ReplyAnd the US food companies have known this was coming for a loooong time. The biggest names already changed ahead of time.
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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
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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.
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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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