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Newsom signs bill to make California first state in nation to ban "toxic" food additives
(www.latimes.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Oct 2023
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Ahhh but I don't have enough cancer yet :( On a serious note, sometimes people shit talk California but they have a massive economy and when they do things like this it has a huge positive benefit for the entire country. Most companies will just reformulate instead of having California specific products so everyone benefits.
Do these cause cancer in the usage and quantity they are consumed in?
Or is this more California "everything causes cancer" BS?
The FDA banned the use of Red Dye #3 in cosmetics over 30 years ago because it causes cancer in animal models. But it was never banned in food. That is either beholden to big business, downright stupid, or both. More info here: https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-additives/red-dye-3-banned-in-cosmetics-but-still-allowed-in-food-a3467381365/
If yoyu want an even more blatant example of this, look into the history of stevia and the FDA. Which includes fun stuff like the FDA burning crates of herbal tea because that tea contained stevia, declaring it an unsafe food additive seemingly entirely because NutraSweet wanted them to, and not that much later creating rules that allowed it to be sold to any one in any quantity for any reason as an "herbal dietary supplement", but only so long as you didn't mention that it had a flavor. Mentioning that it was sweet tasting transformed it from an herbal dietary supplement that's basically harmless into a dangerous unsafe food additive.
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