The use of brominated vegetable oil (BVO) in food and drinks is now, officially, banned in the U.S. Last month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced it was revoking a regulation allowing ...

A class-action lawsuit has been filed against Ahold Delhaize USA and its Food Lion banner because the grocer allegedly failed to notify shoppers that consuming brominated vegetable oil over a long ...

Illinois Senator Willie Preston has proposed the Food Safety Act for the second time, aiming to ban four potentially harmful chemicals from food products in the state. The bill has gained momentum due ...

A federal lawsuit and new scrutiny from Mexico’s tequila regulator have upended the booming “additive-free” tequila movement, calling into question how transparency claims are used on bottles and in ...

Walmart will remove artificial dyes and 30 other additives — such as artificial sweeteners, fat substitutes and various preservatives — from its US private-brand food and beverage products, the ...

The Food and Drug Administration’s “hands-off approach” to food additives, including those found in ultraprocessed foods and energy drinks, may allow unsafe ingredients to enter the nation’s food ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) banned the use of Red Dye No.3 in foods and has given drug manufacturers until ...

In a decisive move to protect public health, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is phasing out several petroleum-based ...

Food additives are often considered undesirable by consumers. This is particularly the case recently, with many consumers concerned about their prevalence within ultra-processed foods. So are ...

Exposure to certain food additive mixtures was associated with a higher incidence of type 2 diabetes (T2D), with two specific mixtures containing emulsifiers, preservatives, and artificial sweeteners ...