FDA Bans Use of Brominated Vegetable Oil in Beverages
The FDA is banning the use of brominated vegetable oil in food, it said in a final rule. The agency is revoking the authorization for the use of BVO as an ingredient to stabilize flavoring oils in fruit-flavored beverages, which…
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was the only use allowed. “Few beverages in the U.S. contain BVO,” the FDA said in an industry update. The final rule takes effect Aug. 2, but compliance with the ban isn’t required until one year later.