Landmark CA bill to ban harmful food chemicals spares Skittles, heads to Gov Newsom for signing go.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from go.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SDI Productions/Getty Images(NEW YORK) California is making history with a first-of-its-kind bill to ban four harmful chemicals from candy, cereals, salad dressings and other processed foods, legislation that will soon hit Gov. Gavin Newsom s desk to be signed into law. However, the bill spares one of America s favorite candies.
The California Food Safety Act, AB 418, passed in the state legislature on Tuesday after first passing in the Assembly earlier this spring with approval from the health committee.
The bill, authored and presented by Democratic Assembly Member Jesse Gabriel, representing California’s 46th district, and co-sponsored by the Environmental Working Group and Consumer Reports, would end the use of brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben and red dye No. 3 in food products sold throughout the state.
Originally, the bill included a fifth chemical, titanium dioxide, which is found in Skittles. That chemical was removed from the bill’s final ver
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