[Flick Lives]

It’s got electrolytes!

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

Is there a nutritional value to BVO?

[mylife]

“brominated vegetable oil” Yummy.

[JimSEA]

Fire suppressant? I guess it’s a good thing to lower the risk of spontaneous human combustion.

[aomagrat]

I’m more concerned about the dihydrogen monoxide in sport beverages.

[Popman]

Change.org noted that the ingredient is linked to a flame retardant and is not approved for use in Japan or the European Union.

Many chemicals have "linked" uses...There are also many, many chemicals used for flame retardant...how many are also used in food processing or as an ingredient...?

The thing that interests me is Coca Cola has the leading share of soft drinks in Japan so they ALREADY know the chemical may have an issue...

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

What's going to happen next is there's going to be another substitute that will be even worse than the original. Remember the sugar scare? So what did the soft drink companies do then. They replaced it with high-fructose corn syrup, which is even worse than sugar.

These liberal knee-jerk reactions always spawn unintended consequences.

[Obadiah]

I guess the kid doesn’t drink Mt. Dew then.

[cyclotic]

This is stupid. I read the MSDS for BVO. I work in the chemical industry and know how to read a MSDS. They are written in very specific language and not designed for the average person to understand. Especially liberals and junk scientists. Lots of big multi-syllable words and stuff dude. It’s been a while but the LD50. (Lethal dose) was way, way beyond 8 ppm. It was something like gallons a day.