Coca-Cola to remove controversial drinks ingredient

[dipsydoodle]

The world's largest beverage-maker, Coca-Cola, plans to remove a controversial ingredient from some of its drinks brands by the end of this year, following an online petition.

Brominated vegetable oil, or BVO, is found in Coca-Cola fruit and sports drinks such as Fanta and Powerade.

It will be replaced after concerns that an element of the additive is also found in flame retardants.

Rival Pepsi removed the chemical from its Gatorade sports drink last year.

A Pepsi spokesman said it also had wider plans to stop using BVO and had "been actively working to remove it from the rest of our product portfolio".

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27289259

[Revanchist]

1. I have an issue with stories that uses lines like this

It will be replaced after concerns that an element of the additive is also found in flame retardants.

I wanted to find out more so I did a search online and it seems that there are many different types of bromide compounds, including ones that used to have medical uses such as being one of the first successful treatments for epilepsy.

It's the same scare tactics that they use for products like e-cigs, claiming that they contain propylene glycol, an ingredient in antifreeze yet neglect to mention that it is also used in asthma inhalers

[jberryhill]

2. Bacon contains an ingredient used to make footballs!

[pipoman]

3. myth

[pinboy3niner]

5. Tell me about it!

That's why I gave up football.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Coca-Cola also adds massive amounts of 2 ingredients used in fire extinguishers

water and carbon dioxide.

[Autumn]

6. I don't care about the BVO, get rid of the damn nasty high fructose corn syrup

and use sugar. It tastes better.