The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed revoking its regulation authorizing the nationwide use of brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, as an additive in food.
The FDA’s decision comes after California banned the ingredient in October by passing the California Food Safety Act, the first state law in the United States to ban brominated vegetable oil. The additive is already banned in Europe and Japan.
“The agency concluded that the intended use of BVO in food is no longer considered safe after the results of studies conducted in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health … found the potential for adverse health effects in humans,” said James Jones, the FDA’s deputy commissioner for human foods, in a statement.
Great point, and I encourage everyone to look up the difference between the fluoride in toothpaste and the extremely toxic acid the US puts in our drinking water.
It’s banned in the EU, Japan, and a bunch of other industrialized countries who have identical rates of tooth decay, but statistically significantly lower rates of ovarian cists and low male testosterone (among other things)
The elements don’t matter, the molecules most certainly do