“FDA to Finally Outlaw Soda Ingredient Prohibited Around The World
March 11, 2024
Wow - super - great news- way to go science, better late than never; after all, we were looking a bit silly denying well established science.
But then I did what so many won’t - I read on. I didn’t have to go far because there it was in the very first sentence - poof - blink and say bye-bye - as profit tells science to sit down and quit acting like it knows sumthing about business.
“An ingredient once commonly used in citrus-flavored sodas to keep the tangy taste mixed thoroughly through the beverage could finally be banned for good across the US.”
Headline
“FDA to Finally Outlaw”
Article
“could finally be banned”
“It's taken time, and a number of further studies, but on the back of more recent animal studies based on relative concentrations of BVO humans are likely to ingest, the FDA is finally convinced there is sufficient evidence to ban its use altogether.”
Although I’m glad to know that my FDA is “finally … convinced”, I’m now curious about why now and not 50 years ago when these same tests convinced the rest of the world 50 years ago.
Read on:
“Most major soda drink companies are fortunately ahead of the game.”
"Over the years many beverage makers reformulated their products to replace BVO with an alternative ingredient, and today, few beverages in the US contain BVO," said Jones.”
Mr. Jones gets so excited about the FDA finally acting on 50 year old and no longer applicable science that he envisions a science tsunami sweeping the United States of America. He says,
“The ban could be a sign of more things to come, with Jones announcing the agency is reviewing regulations that authorize the use of certain food additives, with a view to automatically prohibit the approval of any food coloring agents found to cause cancer in humans or animals, making for a more nimble bureaucratic process.
It’s a “sign of more things to come” he says as he pits his own “more nimble bureaucratic” Lucy holding the football against his own Charlie Brown with the caution:
“final call on the FDA's reclassification blah, blah
lengthy review process blah, blah, blah, blah.”
“lengthy review process”
Finally he summarizes the toothlessness of the FDA and the uselessness of his own journalism.
After admitting that the industry was no longer using this chemical he admits that this March 11, 2024 article is a version of his same article from 2023.
Some have suggested that the 2023 article refers back to a 2022 article which in turn refers back to a 2021 article
No way, of course he’d only do it once, no way, no more.
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"minor injuries" and you have to watch the video to learn that
Short of getting compacted, one can injure fingers and toes while dumpster diving. If so, you might meet:
The headline is fine, though sad, but does PBS really need a reporter who specializes in digits? Or, do they mean that she reports on computer repair? 
That's because what she's saying is as nebulous and muddled as the headlines about the reporting on it are:
I'm no proponent of animal testing, and I'm not going to debate PETA on the issue. However, it is done and its applicability to human health in general is well established. If anything, we have been too conservative and too slavish to the god of profit on the question of exposure to chemicals in foods.