[Blue Jays]

It is definitely contained in Diet Mountain Dew soda.
Unsure if it is really bad or a somewhat benign ingredient.

[chajin]

One of the problems with bromine is that it replaces iodine in the body, which has effects on the thyroid, and everything that the thyroid regulates.

[dfwgator]

It’s got Electrolytes!

[VanShuyten]

I think the author needs to take a bromide and lay down.

[goodwithagun]

Yet another good reson why I’m glad we cut out processed/prepared foods.

[Monitor]

The Food Babe is another resource.

The food babe is a moron. I do not read anything by her, nor by anyone dumb enough to consider her a resource.

[Katya]

I think just avoiding soda in general remedies this... and eating food where you recognize all the ingredients.

[Dr. Sivana]

Ever notice how people wear breathing masks and other protective gear when handling pesticides?

That’s because you do not want to get this stuff on ya or in ya. Trust us. This stuff is aimed to kill.

So why, then, until just recently were soft drink makers putting it in their products?

I do not have an opiniion about brominated vegetable oil, though I seem to recall it being Gatorade.

What I don't like is the false logic of,

Poisonous things are bad for you

X is poisonous

X contains Y

Therefore, Y is bad for you

These kinds of arguments are used on perfectly harmless and even essential substances. Some time ago, some fracking technology company came up with a formula for a fracking fluid made up entirely of food grade ingredients, to mollify concerns about stuff going into the drinking water.It STILL wasn't good enough. The natural foods folks come out with products like cayene pepper spray to act as a pesticide. Sometimes these types of ingredients find their way in the mass produced versions of those products. Does that mean that we should not eat hot sauce? Some freepers add Borax to their dishwashers . . . the same Borax used to kill cockroaches! You want THAT touching things you EAT off of?

If folks want to be concerned, I'd be more copncerned about 2 million women in NYC peeing out extreme amounts of estrogen from prescriptions (BC and menopause) into the water supply ... mixtures that are NOT easily filtered out. A bigger danger still in areas served by wells.

[cyclotic]

I hate to throw actual science in this. The LD50 of BVO is 2000 mg/kg. the means that 50% of the population wod die of a lethal dose if they drank enough of this. Since the max concentration of BVO is 15 parts per million, to reach LD50, you’d have to drink 83000 cans of Mountain Dew.

Corn starch is also a flame retardant as is Bakjng soda and carbon dioxide.

Don’t let these scare tactics fool you.

No, I’m not a food chemist. I just have more than passing knowledge about how to read and decipher a MSDS. They are not written for the average person to understand and can lead to needless fears.

[Rio]

Can’t be worse than sucralose.

[for-q-clinton]

Well I wish it would have decreased my fertility sooner...now I need to get surgery to stop it.

[Kirkwood]

If something I eat or drink doesn’t kill me or make me vioently ill within 15 minutes, I have no problem with it.

[nascarnation]

So based on this, I’ve been consuming BVO since about 1953.
Well when I croak, I’ll tell my family to sue....
/s

[maine-iac7]

read later!!!!!!

[minnesota_bound]

When ever I eat any ready made meals I do not feel so well afterward. Anything from the frozen food section. This can also include the deli section of a grocery store. I try out say Italian meals or even meatloaf and I feel wore out / tired afterward. The manufacturers put a bunch of something in those meals.

When I cook a meal it is different such as chicken or steak with vegi’s. I feel better.