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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Not the Babylon Bee.
Not my Skittles!! How will I ever go on?? What will I have for snacks? Or breakfast for that matter.
Just have a 4’ bong hit and an avocado for breakfast.
Keeps me straight daily…
Leave caulifourkneeyuh. Sales, manufacturing....🖕
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Priorities of the Left.
call the bean counters together to see if avoiding sales there is a possibility.
Black market skittles. Lovely.
Can’t speak for all these. But red dye #3 is indeed insane as a food “additive”.
What about purple drank? What are skittles without purple drank?
but...but what about the purple drank?
In fact, leftism is the real cancer which needs to be eliminated.
“But red dye #3 is indeed insane as a food “additive”.”
Why would you say that?
IF I was a candy manufacturer, I’d just quit selling ANYTHING in California, even if some of my stuff was approved.
Good. For once CA can be a model to the rest of the states
With all the cancer-causing things in our food and products. I would think we would be immune from cancer.
Skittles could easily handle a $10,000 fine and keep their recipe.
Or, just stop distributing g to that commie state.
Its made from petroleum.. it is not a food or something you should be ingesting in any way shape or form.
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