Posted on 03/31/2023 8:01:44 PM PDT by algore
A proposed California bill could force popular candies like Skittles to change their recipes — or stop selling them in California altogether.
In February, Assemblymember Jesse Gabriel introduced Assembly Bill 418, which would prohibit the manufacture, sale and distribution of food products containing five chemicals linked to cancer and other health risks. One of these chemicals is titanium dioxide, which is listed as an ingredient in Skittles on the candy brand's website.
Last July, a lawsuit filed in California alleged that Skittles are "unfit for human consumption" because they contain titanium dioxide; however, the lawsuit was dismissed in November.
In 2016, parent company Mars Inc. promised to phase out the chemical from its candies. Mars Inc. did not return SFGATE's request for comment in time for publication.
“Californians shouldn’t have to worry that the food they buy in their neighborhood grocery store might be full of dangerous additives or toxic chemicals,” said Assemblymember Gabriel in a press release. “This bill will correct for a concerning lack of federal oversight and help protect our kids, public health, and the safety of our food supply.”
Last week, a group of food and beverage manufacturers and distributors wrote a letter to the California Assembly Committee on Health opposing the bill, as first reported by the Daily Mail.
Eleven organizations, including the Consumer Brands Association, the National Confectioners Association and the California Grocers Association, signed the letter.
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yeah, Californians should not be trusted with Skittles.
Just wait until the California legislature learns about dihydrogen monoxide.
They’ll make a “California version” like so many other products and carry on as normal outside Crazyland.
California has gone nuts. Titanium dioxide is highly inert. It literally doesn’t react with anything in the human body
These idiots believe they’re ingesting heavy metals.
Purple drank?
The ghost of Trayvon Martin will haunt them.
That and skittles and menthol cigarettes and I’m set.
Lead is inert.
They shouldn’t be trusted with anything!
Yeah, man, but IT'S WHITE and everything WHITE is TOXIC !!! REEEEEEEE!!!
“One of these chemicals is titanium dioxide”
Sounds more like RACISM to me, as we get most of our titanium from Russia and China. No surprise to see this HATE from the Democrats pushing the ban.
I saw on a piece of particle board a warning that cutting wood can cause cancer as it contains chemicals like titanium dioxide.
This is actually kind of surprising. That they would attack something in rainbow colors like that.
I kinda expect that they will soon require all products to carry rainbow colors in celebration of LGBTQPPB+.
The EPA does not regulate food, but it classifies titanium dioxide as a 4A chemical, meaning EPA considers it one of the most inert chemicals, and therefore does not regulate its use or set content levels in things like pesticides, Ag. Chemicals or other EPA-regulated areas.
California kills a woke corporation? Oh, golly gee, ain’t that a shame?
[ The ghost of Trayvon Martin will haunt them. ]
awfully racist of them to ban a vital ingredient of a black culture drink!
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