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Brominated vegetable oil may soon be banned. But what is it, and how worried should you be?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The FDA is mulling a ban on brominated vegetable oil, which is used in some sodas and sports drinks. (Getty Images) (Getty Images) ...
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Say Goodbye to Brominated Vegetable Oil. No Great Loss.

The FDA recently banned brominated vegetable oil (BVO), an emulsifier used in citrus-flavored sodas to keep flavor oils evenly distributed. BVO has been replaced by safer alternatives due to potential ...
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FDA Bans Brominated Vegetable Oil: Learn About the Additive and What This Means for Foods and Beverages

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It's no secret that many of your favorite foods and beverages contain additives and chemical ingredients to help them have a ...
Food & Wine

Brominated Vegetable Oil May Soon Be Banned by the FDA

Karla Walsh is a Des Moines, Iowa-based lifestyle writer with more than 15 years of journalism experience. Visiting restaurants helped her fall in love with food while conquering an eating disorder, ...
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This Controversial Vegetable Oil Was Only Recently Banned In The US

Reading the ingredients of commonplace products like snacks and sodas can be a brain-wrinkling task. Among many new ingredients and additives being deemed illegal in the U.S., a vegetable oil was ...
C&EN

Goodbye brominated vegetable oil

Brominated vegetable oil (BVO), an ingredient once widely used to prevent citrus flavoring from floating to the top of beverages, “is no longer considered safe,” the US Food and Drug Administration ...
USA Today

What sodas do and don't have BVO? What to know about additive FDA wants to ban

Soda drinkers are on alert after the Food and Drug Administration on Thursday moved to revoke the regulation that allows the use of brominated vegetable oil, an additive found in fruity-flavored ...
CNN

FDA proposes ban on potentially harmful ingredient found in some sodas

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What you need to know about the FDA’s proposed ban of brominated vegetable oil

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New York Post

Why your soda may taste different following FDA ban on controversial additive

The US Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday it is banning the use of brominated vegetable oil in food items effective Aug. 2. BVO, a vegetable oil modified with bromine, has been a food ...
C&EN

FDA seeks to ban brominated vegetable oil

More than 50 years after determining that brominated vegetable oil (BVO) is no longer generally recognized as safe (GRAS), the US Food and Drug Administration is proposing to ban the food ingredient.
NPR

The FDA proposes banning a food additive that's been used for a century

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is considering banning brominated vegetable oil, a food additive that was recently deemed unlawful to use in California because of its potentially harmful effects ...