California became the first state in the nation to prohibit four food additives found in popular cereal, soda, candy and drinks after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a ban on them Saturday.
The California Food Safety Act will ban the manufacture, sale or distribution of brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben and red dye No. 3 — potentially affecting 12,000 products that use those substances, according to the Environmental Working Group.
The legislation was popularly known as the “Skittles ban” because an earlier version also targeted titanium dioxide, used as a coloring agent in candies including Skittles, Starburst and Sour Patch Kids, according to the Environmental Working Group. But the measure, Assembly Bill 418, was amended in September to remove mention of the substance.
It’s really a damning indictment of our society that we put cancerous materials in everything and then blame the people making us aware of that, not the ones deciding to give us cancer.
Not everything causes cancer, but they’ll use the cancer causing shit if it’s cheap, is the actual lesson. Not fuck hippies or whatever you’re on about.
What I’m “on about” is that the standards for “causes cancer” are set far too low by California to the point where they are counterproductive.