The US Food and Drug Administration will no longer allow the use of brominated vegetable oil in food products, the agency said Tuesday.
Brominated vegetable oil is vegetable oil modified with the chemical bromine and has been used in small amounts to keep citrus flavoring from floating to the top in beverages, according to an FDA statement.
The food additive was removed from the FDA's list of Generally Recognized As Safe or "GRAS" substance list in 1970 and has been regulated since then, the agency said. Additionally, a 2012 Change.org petition with more than 200,000 signatures brought attention to health concerns, according to an EWG news release. It also said many companies eliminated it from consumer products due to market pressure.
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