Posted on 10/09/2023 4:58:29 PM PDT by Libloather
Candy companies will be forced to change their recipes within three years in California or face fines after a new bill was passed in the Golden State.
Gavin Newsom signed the so-called 'Skittles ban' Saturday, which outlaws four popular additives that have been linked to cancer, disease and mood disorders.
The bill gives food companies three years to strip the ingredients from their products or face fines of up to $10,000.
Supporters have heralded the bill as an 'important stand' against 'toxic' chemicals but food companies have hit back, blasting the move as confusing and threatening to raise food prices.
The four newly-banned additives are: brominated vegetable oil, potassium bromate, propylparaben and red dye No.3.
Around 12,000 products sold in California use these, according to the Environmental Working Group.
An earlier version of the ban also included titanium dioxide — used in products like Skittles — but this was removed in September. This was how the bill became known as the 'Skittles ban'.
The European Union has already outlawed the additives in foods, forcing companies to make the tweaks.
The ban will come into force in January 2027, with companies found to be manufacturing, distributing or selling the products facing fines of up to $10,000.
Other states like New York look are considering similar bans.
Newsom revealed he had signed the bill into law by stapling a packet of Skittles to the document.
He said: 'This is demonstrable proof that the food industry is capable of maintaining product lines while complying with different public health laws, country-to-country.'
Jesse Gabriel, a Democrat for Woodland Hills who proposed the bill, said: 'The Governor's signature today represents a huge step in our effort to protect children and families in California from dangerous and toxic chemicals in our food supply.
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While I reflexively oppose anything that Newsom champions, there might be something here.
We eat poison and have been eating poison in America for several decades now. Future historians will look back on this time much the same way we look back on ancient Rome for drinking out of lead cups, only the Romans didn't know better. We do.
We are consuming poisonous garbage and it is contributing to untold health consequences for the country as a whole.
Adding Peeps to my shopping list, along with ammo and magazines, for Reno.
I'd support a national ban (as a start; there are MANY more).
If more people understood how the masses are being made to become dependent upon government as a result of chemicals that we're gaslighted as being "GRAS", Conservatives would never lose an election.
But I'm sure the overarching tone of this thread will place me squarely in the crosshairs.
Newsom is clueless on these additives.
Purple Drank won’t be the same.
Companies should just stop selling things in CA.
Sure it’s a big market, but if enough companies do it, it will change its ways.
Like the tobacco companies. They sell more cigarettes out of the country than here in the US.
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why it would come from Newsome of all people.
“stupidity epidemic”
LOL. That’s been my mantra for a couple years now (i.e., “pandemic of stupid”).
I’ve encountered numerous 20-30 somethings the past year who believe it’s healthful to eat takeout (read ‘fast’ as included) on a regular basis.
Unfortunately, I’m watching my father kill himself doing exactly that. I can’t share why that’s so tragic until I publish.
A friend of mine has a son who would go hyperactive any time he ate something with red dye in it.
Maybe that’s because it was accompanied with sugar.
It’s a shame Narcan doesn’t work on Skittles. Priorities ya know.
EC
Will they still allow mRNA vaccines in California?
Yes, Red Dye #3 has been linked to hyperactivity and ADHD as well and other things as well.
It’s not FOOD in any sense of the word... the fact that stuff is legal shows you that the government is owned by the corporations and big donors not serving the people.
THis will save the lives of thousands of unicorns.
Now those contraband shops on the Nevada side of the border will have a whole lot of new products to sell.
A Skittles ban would have saved Trayvon.
Non-red candy didn't bother him.
Good one. Beat me to it
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