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Gatorade pulls ingredient linked to flame retardant

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Brominated vegetable oil, a synthetic chemical that has been patented in Europe as a flame retardant, will no longer double as an ingredient in Gatorade sports drinks.
Molly Carter, a spokeswoman for Gatorade owner PepsiCo Inc., said the company has been considering the move for more than a year, working on a way to take out the ingredient without affecting the flavor of the drink.
A recent petition on Change.org to drop the chemical – which has more than 200,000 supporters – did not inspire the decision, Carter said, though she acknowledged that consumer feedback was the main impetus.
In the petition, posted by Sarah Kavanagh of Hattiesburg, Miss., “BVO” is described as banned in Japan and theEuropean Union.
The effort quotes a Scientific American article suggesting that “BVO could be building up in human tissues” and that studies on mice have shown “reproductive and behavioral problems” linked to large doses of the chemical.
The reformulated Gatorade flavors “will start rolling out in the next few months,” Carter said.
There’s no hard date for the launch because “we’re not recalling Gatorade,” she said. “We don’t think our products are unsafe. We don’t think there are health or safety risks.”
The BVO ingredient was used as a flavor emulsifier, helping to distribute Gatorade’s coloring throughout the bottle, Carter said. Now, the company is swapping in another emulsifier with an intimidating name: sucrose acetate isobutyrate.

http://www.latimes.com/business/mon...97.story?goback=.gde_1900547_member_208306799
 
Gatoraid is shit. I'm a supporter of change.org & have seen the work they do for the consumer.
Sucrose syryp, fructose syrup. 8 oz. you get 3.5 tsp. sugar. Who needs that. Put a tbl. spoon pure honey in a club soda. Guzzle that. Add a dash of potassium chloride. Table salt replacement.
I heard water is really good alone. Who knew? Priced right as well.
 
Gatoraid is shit. I'm a supporter of change.org & have seen the work they do for the consumer.
Sucrose syryp, fructose syrup. 8 oz. you get 3.5 tsp. sugar. Who needs that. Put a tbl. spoon pure honey in a club soda. Guzzle that. Add a dash of potassium chloride. Table salt replacement.
I heard water is really good alone. Who knew? Priced right as well.

But it doesn't have da purty colors.......
 
Was going to say its been banned in other countries, but thats already been stated in the OP. Glad I dont drink gatorade, but I know people who have, and still do drink copious amounts.
 
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