Devon County Council has become the latest authority to warn about the safety of American snacks, sweets and fizzy drinks.
Heart of the South West Trading Standards Service, which covers Devon, Plymouth, Somerset, and Torbay, said imported sweets not approved for sale are increasingly being seen in shops across the region.
Continue Reading Further UK warnings about additives in American snacks
The Food and Drug Administration is revoking permission for food companies to use brominated vegetable oil.
The revocation goes into effect on Aug. 2 with a compliance date one year after. The delay is to allow companies to reformulate, relabel, and deplete the inventory of BVO-containing products before the FDA
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to revoke the regulation authorizing the use of brominated vegetable oil (BVO) in food.
The action comes after BVO landed on a list of ingredients recently banned by California. The FDA concluded that the intended use of BVO in food is no longer
Continue Reading With FDA action, brominated vegetable oil faces nationwide ban, not just in California
As a near-year-round body, the California Legislature does things a little differently. Until the middle of September, it has adjourned most of its committees to put the Upper Chamber’s focus almost entirely on floor action.
That is good news for the California Food Safety Act, which is on the State
Continue Reading Just before the final vote, one item was removed from AB418’s list of substances banned in food
After it passed the lower house in mid-May by a floor vote of 54-to-12, the food product safety bill known as AB-418 advanced to the California Senate where it picked up a minor amendment while waiting for action by the Committee on Health.
The amendment, which means the bill will
Continue Reading Pro and con arguments for food product safety bill in California Senate
Authorities in the United Kingdom have issued a warning because of a rise in the number of non-compliant food and drink products being imported from countries including the United States.
The problem was identified by the Food Standards Agency (FSA) through import surveillance sampling and the occurrence of incidents.
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Coca-Cola is removing brominated vegetable oil (BVO) from its drinks, reports the Associated Press. The company said it will remove the controversial ingredient from all of its drinks that contain it, including Powerade sports drinks and some flavors of Fanta. In 2012, Mississippi teenager Sarah Kavanagh launched a petition on
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