New Delhi: United States’ Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that food additives will now not be used in packaged drinks and food products.
In an official statement, FDA explained how brominated vegetable oil which is used like a food additive, is harmful for the consumers. The FDA further said that this ruling will be applicable from August 2 2024.
Despite specifying the date since when the ruling will be applicable, the organisation also said that the companies will have ‘one year after that date to reformulate and relabel their products as well as deplete their BVO inventory’.
According to the deputy commissioner for FDA’s Human Food Program, “The removal of the only authorized use of BVO from the food supply was based on a thorough review of current science and research findings that raised safety concerns.”
The brominated vegetable oil, which suspends citrus flavourings and prevents its separation during times of shipping and storage, causes quite a few health concerns.
As per the report published by center for Science in the Public Interest, BVO leaves residues of bromine triglyceride in body fat which may result in memory loss, nausea, headaches, coordination loss and damage to liver, heart, brain and central nervous system.
The report also states that in the year 1970, BVO usage was banned in United Kingdom; a similar step was taken by India in 1990, the European Union (EU) in 2008 and Japan in 2010.
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