Center for Science in the Public Interest: Illinois Moves to Ban Red 3 and Other Harmful Food Additives
April 19, 2024
April 19, 2024
WASHINGTON, April 19 -- The Center for Science in the Public Interest issued the following statement on April 18, 2024:
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Illinois has taken a critical step toward protecting consumers from unsafe food additives with today's bipartisan passage of the Illinois Food Safety Act, SB2637, out of the state Senate. This bill will ban the use of four unsafe and unnecessary additives--brominated vegetable oil (BVO), potassium bromate, propylparaben, and Red 3--from foods sol . . .
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Illinois has taken a critical step toward protecting consumers from unsafe food additives with today's bipartisan passage of the Illinois Food Safety Act, SB2637, out of the state Senate. This bill will ban the use of four unsafe and unnecessary additives--brominated vegetable oil (BVO), potassium bromate, propylparaben, and Red 3--from foods sol . . .