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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCoca-Cola to remove controversial drinks ingredient
The world's largest beverage-maker, Coca-Cola, plans to remove a controversial ingredient from some of its drinks brands by the end of this year, following an online petition.
Brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, is found in Coca-Cola fruit and sports drinks such as Fanta and Powerade.
It will be replaced after concerns that an element of the additive is also found in flame retardants.
Rival Pepsi removed the chemical from its Gatorade sports drink last year.
A Pepsi spokesman said it also had wider plans to stop using BVO and had "been actively working to remove it from the rest of our product portfolio".
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27289259
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Coca-Cola to remove controversial drinks ingredient (Original Post)
dipsydoodle
May 2014
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Coca-Cola also adds massive amounts of 2 ingredients used in fire extinguishers
muriel_volestrangler
May 2014
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Revanchist
(1,375 posts)1. I have an issue with stories that uses lines like this
It will be replaced after concerns that an element of the additive is also found in flame retardants.
I wanted to find out more so I did a search online and it seems that there are many different types of bromide compounds, including ones that used to have medical uses such as being one of the first successful treatments for epilepsy.
It's the same scare tactics that they use for products like e-cigs, claiming that they contain propylene glycol, an ingredient in antifreeze yet neglect to mention that it is also used in asthma inhalers
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)2. Bacon contains an ingredient used to make footballs!
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)5. Tell me about it!
That's why I gave up football.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,361 posts)4. Coca-Cola also adds massive amounts of 2 ingredients used in fire extinguishers
water and carbon dioxide.
Autumn
(45,120 posts)6. I don't care about the BVO, get rid of the damn nasty high fructose corn syrup
and use sugar. It tastes better.